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grum
[ gruhm ]
adjective
- grim; glum; surly.
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Other Words From
- grumly adverb
- grumness noun
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Example Sentences
His wife, who thought a great deal of the good Giant, was sorry to see that he was silent and rather grum.
I had the honour of keeping an anchor-watch in company with a grum old Swede, as we lay in the Hudson.
A grum, melancholy note came floating over the long sea swells—Oo-oo-oo-ooh!
So it went on—grumble, grumble, grumble, grum— And that Rachel actually put her arm round his neck and kissed his cross red face.
Troth, we e'en fitted them and clawed 'em off with a vengeance, for all they looked so big and so grum.
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