saturnine

/'sætə:nain/
Adjective
  1. showing a brooding ill humor
    • a dark scowl
    • the proverbially dour New England Puritan
    • a glum, hopeless shrug
    • he sat in moody silence
    • a morose and unsociable manner
    • a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius- Bruce Bliven
    • a sour temper
    • a sullen crowd
  2. bitter or scornful
    • the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain- Oscar Wilde

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A man with a saturnine expression stares out a rain-streaked window.