| ADJECTIVE | all | saturnine | bitter or scornful |
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| all | saturnine, dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen | showing a brooding ill humor |
| Meaning | bitter or scornful. | |
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| Example | "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde | |
| Broader | sarcastic | Expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds |
| Spanish | mordaz, sardónico, saturnino | |
| Meaning | showing a brooding ill humor. | |
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| Example | "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven | |
| Synonyms | dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen | |
| Broader | ill-natured | Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
| Spanish | adusto, agrio, austero, desabrido, hosco, lúgubre, malhumorado, retraïdo, saturnino, sombrío, taciturno | |
| Catalan | adust, agre, auster, esquerp, lúgubre, retret, sorrut, taciturn | |
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