glum
adjective
sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
glumness
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a word derived from
glum.
Example Sentences
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True, but the glumness of said world is central to Hoover’s zeitgeisty appeal — a point she underlines a few beats later, Kenna insisting that the radio only ever plays depressing songs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Oregon boarded a well-funded plane home, a glum plane, an annual Pac-12 plane of glumness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2021
Kramer is an answer to all that glumness, as far as the board is concerned, a very Hollywood figure, a showman and salesman and story teller.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
But glumness isn’t obligatory, and in a world filled with new media that perpetually deluge us with ill-chosen words, the grace of well-executed verbal economy can be very welcome, indeed.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2021
He was struck by Horace's glumness, and in his frank way openly chaffed the boy about it.
From Tongues of Conscience by Robert Smythe Hichens
