SATURNINE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for SATURNINE, such as:
1. A mediaeval doctor would have called him saturnine.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
5 A mediaeval doctor would have called him saturnine.
Example Sentence:
1 Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks.