(v. i.) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We don't have any reason to, to be honest," he says, with a touch of glumness.
(2) The old, optimistic growth forecasts were torn up, replaced by the glum admission that this year the economy will have shrunk by 0.1%.
(3) But it feels like a painful loss to a small community that once looked to Labour as its natural home – and which is fast reaching the glum conclusion that Labour has become a cold house for Jews.
(4) The AU delegation - made up of South Africa , Uganda, Mauritania, Congo-Brazzaville and Mali - left the talks looking glum, without making a public comment and to the derisive shouts of the protesters outside the hotel.
(5) We can see why they’re glum, but it’s not going to be a challenge for Private Eye to get a cover page joke out of it.
(6) They have glumly predicted precisely that outcome for some time.
(7) Sandwiched on a panel between the mayors of Los Angeles, Copenhagen, New York, and Johannesburg, the most rapidly converted man in the city struck out at the glums.
(8) (As glum centrists often observe: “He beat us twice.”) The Labour leader might not have taken his party to victory, but he has earned the right to fight again.
(9) Addressing a glum group of SPD supporters in Berlin, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the outgoing foreign minister and SPD candidate for chancellor, said it was a "bitter day for German social democracy".
(10) At times, Sarkozy had seemed tired and glum on the campaign trail.
(11) The mood in No 10 grew extremely glum as a steady drip of areas were declaring two points below their own predictions.
(12) I had expected the American guests to be in a state of hysteria, but apart from a few glumly watching CNN in the bar, hotel life went on as usual.
(13) Conventional understanding of politics assumes that that kind of rational argument is devastating: if you amass the historical data and the foreign examples, point to defeat after defeat for Corbynist programmes or Sanders-like candidates, surely their supporters will glumly lower their placards and come to their senses.
(14) I felt the same way I would if I went to a play and sat through an hour of about 50 actors filing onto the stage one by one and staring at me glumly in turn before any actual business resulted.
(15) He used to mock me for it, and see it as part of my characteristic glumness, which was such a contrast to his relentless enthusiasm.
(16) I can’t make decisions for myself”, she declares glumly.
(17) Prisoners' breath catches in clouds while they glumly circuit the courtyard.
(18) It’s melancholy because it rests on the glum admission that these two peoples, both asserting their right to self-determination, are unable to determine their own futures.
(19) Some contrasted his eloquence with Zuma, who looked glum each time his face was shown and roundly booed.
(20) The study's findings may be skewed by Dutch psychologists spending summers doing glum research rather than catching rays.