SATURNINE in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of SATURNINE
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saturnine
 a.  gloomy; marked by tendency to be bitter or sardonic
Classic Sentence:
1  The Artful, meantime, who was of a rather saturnine disposition, and seldom gave way to merriment when it interfered with business, rifled Oliver's pockets with steady assiduity.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
3  With Mr. Heathcliff, grim and saturnine, on the one hand, and Hareton, absolutely dumb, on the other, I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bade adieu early.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  The skin was puffed out under his sunken eyes, and its sallowness had paled to a leaden white against which his irregular eyebrows and long reddish moustache were relieved with a saturnine effect.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
5  A mediaeval doctor would have called him saturnine.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
Example Sentence:
1  Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks.