glumly

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" Would people at Valve glumly bow their heads and say, "oh, ok"?

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in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"

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adverb

in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for glumly.

adverb

in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"

Example sentences

" Would people at Valve glumly bow their heads and say, "oh, ok"?

The first says glumly: "So, we are just machines?

The next morning, the first boy comes to his father and says glumly, "Dad, I just don’t know what I’ll do with this watch.

I see it as standing on the shoulders of giants, rather than just glumly fitting pipes together.

Even if we are looking at things that glumly, their voters are the most vulnerable to covid.

And yet, when confronted with reality, I must almost everyday glumly admit that such a reality is the one we live in.

The service advisor had bounced over it when trying to get me to sign the checkout papers but nodded glumly when he saw I had initialed it.

These corporate programmers -- did they wait glumly and patiently in line, or were they eager with anticipation to get back to what they were doing?

When I told the recruiter I had no intention of moving to Exeter, he said glumly "that's what everyone says, but the client is dead set against remote".

Only with a judge's approval -- which I doubt would be forthcoming -- particularly if the putative groom sat glumly through the hearing playing video games.

Have you never observed someone or even yourself doing something unhealthy and thought glumly "Yep, eating/drinking this is going to put him/her/me one step closer to death by a lifestyle disease.