saturnine

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His face was pale and saturnine, his eyes dark, very level, and singularly piercing.

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  1. adjective Having the temperament of one born under the supposed astrological influence of Saturn.
  2. adjective Melancholy or sullen.
  3. adjective Having or marked by a tendency to be bitter or sardonic: a saturnine expression on his face.
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  • I do not wonder he grew more and more saturnine, and addicted to solid taciturn field-sports. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • His wit was for the most part caustic and saturnine, and in no other journal could it have so completely identified itself with the ensemble of tone. —  The History of "Punch"
  • His face was pale and saturnine, his eyes dark, very level, and singularly piercing. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
  • His embarrassment was gone; his expression was saturnine, his eyes narrowed with a slight mockery. —  The Two-Gun Man
  • Miss Dean was plain and saturnine, and had no difficulty in obtaining a good boarding-place, even with the mother of a marriageable daughter, who had taken her in with far-sighted alacrity. —  The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel
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