Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a glum or sullen manner; with moroseness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.
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- adverb in a
glum manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a sullen manner
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Examples
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Whitman for Governor began with great promise, but it ended with a GOP official glumly declaring, "The Republican brand in this state is death."
Report: Whitman Lost, But Payday Was Sweet For Many California Watch 2011
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Whitman for Governor began with great promise, but it ended with a GOP official glumly declaring, "The Republican brand in this state is death."
Report: Whitman Lost, But Payday Was Sweet For Many California Watch 2011
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“What can I say, I fight everyone,” I said glumly.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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Whitman for Governor began with great promise, but it ended with a GOP official glumly declaring, "The Republican brand in this state is death."
Report: Whitman Lost, But Payday Was Sweet For Many California Watch 2011
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So the youngest member glumly goes off alone to play a videogame.
In Scary Darkness, Seeing the Light Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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He stared glumly at the intersection as his friends placed him on the back of a police truck.
Somali militants grow more brazen in attack Sudarsan Raghavan 2010
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In early 2005, when a group of former aides asked if there was anything he was unhappy about, Yeltsin replied glumly: “Yes, the state of the country.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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This is not the "staring glumly at the screen" problem.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2009
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He stared glumly at the intersection as his friends placed him on the back of a police truck.
Somali militants grow more brazen in attack Sudarsan Raghavan 2010
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Eventually, Davey Johnson, the Mets manager, stopped pitching Sisk at Shea, an embarrassing decision that the ballplayer glumly accepted.
The One Met Their Fans Most Loved to Hate Jeff Pearlman 2011
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