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saturnine

/sat-er-nahyn/US // ˈsæt ərˌnaɪn //UK // (ˈsætəˌnaɪn) //

卫星人,卫星,卫星网,卫星导航

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
    • : suffering from lead poisoning, as a person.
    • : due to absorption of lead, as bodily disorders.

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Examples

  • He was a slim saturnine-faced man with cigaret-ash stain on a coat lapel.

  • The dark, saturnine stranger had shrunk away into the background of his life, and no longer seemed of importance to him.

  • I saw him as he strode through the little village, looking neither to right nor left, saturnine of countenance.

  • And by the door stood Billy, watching them all like an evil spirit, with a leer of saturnine malice on his evil face.

  • The driver, a lean saturnine man who seemed to be forever chewing gum, began to prepare coffee.