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saturnine

— adjective bitter or scornful the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain — Oscar Wilde

— adjective (= dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen) showing a brooding ill humor a dark scowl the proverbially dour New England Puritan a glum, hopeless shrug he sat in moody silence a morose and unsociable manner a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius — Bruce Bliven a sour temper a sullen crowd

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sullen

dark

morose

moody

glum

dour

sour

glowering

sulky

leaden-coloured

weighty

waterlogged

surly

sunless

stodgy

staid

sombre

somber

solemn

sober

serious

sedate

sable

pregnant

ponderous

pissed

onerous

obscure

murky

mirky

matronly

matronal

massive

lumpish

logy

leaden

laboured

labored

joyless

irascible

important

hefty

heavy

grim

grave

gloomy

glooming

gloomful

earnest

dismal