glumpy

glumpy

(ˈɡlʌmpɪ)
adj, glumpier or glumpiest
sullen
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
William Clements' baritone solo made a brave fist of Henry Newbolt's tedious versifying, but most of the vocal contributions were drowned in the great washes of Stanford's glumpy orchestral music scarcely worth the hearing.
The whole thing was rather too good for anyone beyond a glumpy old Monk, and she looked so excessively young and so passing pretty, that ere five minutes were fled, I felt the most overpow'ring inclination to kick her happy and good-looking husband out of the room and give her a kiss before he could come back again.
It tasted as dull as it looked, claggy, glumpy. The year's most uninspiring starter so far.