(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.
Grim
Definition:
(Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(2) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
(3) Patients with anti-NC1 antibodies were characterised by linear immune deposits along the glomerular basement membrane and the clinical outcome was invariably grim.
(4) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(5) ARD TV showing grim-faced FDP cadres: could this be the first time they fall out of national parliament in 60 years?
(6) It has said a better productivity performance and rising North Sea oil revenues will make the budgetary position less grim.
(7) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
(8) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
(9) Yet, if that flurry of form pepped optimism, the injuries and displays in recent friendlies have provided a grim reality check.
(10) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(11) Chinese media and bloggers published images of three young children in blue school uniforms lying dead on the pavement – a grim echo of the high casualty rate at poorly constructed schools in Sichuan in 2008, when a bigger quake killed 87,000 people.
(12) The BCC survey represents a turnround from the end of last year, when it was predicting stagflation – a grim combination of zero growth and inflation.
(13) The human rights organisation, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant labourers engaged in a huge construction boom, said “little has changed in law, policy and practice” since the government promised limited reforms 12 months ago.
(14) Carcinoma of unknown histogenesis or primary site is an increasingly recognized syndrome regarded by most physicians as having a grim prognosis.
(15) "There are times when a swingeing sentence can act as a deterrent", as the judge at the trial was grimly to pronounce.
(16) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(17) It was my shortcomings as coach that caused this result,” said a grim-faced South Korea manager, Hong Myung-bo, who spent most of the post-match press-conference scratching his nose in apparent distress and deflecting comments about whether he would stay on as manager until next year’s Asian Cup.
(18) After grim news on the recession, at least one thing should become clearer: going back to where we were is no longer an option.
(19) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
(20) The entity carries a grim visual prognosis, as all ten eyes initially had no perception of light; improvement to light perception occurred in one instance.