glum
"At first it didn't bother me," he says glumly, "but now I can't stand it".
He sat in the back row, stared glumly, and said nothing.
The prisoners listened glumly as the judge delivered his lecture.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone
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Not hopeful
Examples of glumly
glumly
People read their papers or look
glumly at their feet, and nobody says a word.
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Glumly inevitable it may well have been, in the light of world interest levels.
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