Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak.

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. Dryden.

And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior.

Things are as sullen as we are. Tillotson.

Syn. -- Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish; fretful; ill-humored; petulant; gloomy; malign; intractable. -- Sullen, Sulky. Both sullen and sulky show themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition; the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury. Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit.

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows;
The dreaded east is all the wind that blows. Pope.

-- Sul"len*ly, adv. -- Sul"len*ness, n.

Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. Feltham.