glum

Example Sentences

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Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn’t laugh at myself.

From Literature

The Agnus Dei begins in glum realization that there may be no compensation for humanity’s great sins when, again astonishingly without expectation, one of Beethoven’s uniquely wondrous melodies takes over.

From Los Angeles Times

She saunters to the seat across from Pua and me before realizing that Leo is alone, looking glum.

From Literature

So why, in this glum post-“Walking Dead” era, awaken our much-loved caveman from a good death to such a miserable half-life?

From Salon

He flew straight into a painting of a glum man on a glummer horse, put a claw through the man’s nose, and dropped to the windowsill, peeping in pain and fear.

From Literature