How to use "saturnine" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "saturnine" in popular movie and book plots

• Camilla finds him intelligent but saturnine and intolerant of clever women.  - Mr. Darcy's Daughters
• There is also a new circle of intellectual friends, including Sextus Kridwiss, the art-expert; Chaim Breisacher; dr Egon Unruhe, the palaeozoologist; Georg Vogler, a literary historian; dr Holzschuher, a Dürer scholar; and the saturnine poet Daniel zur Höhe.  - Doctor Faustus (novel)

Example sentences for "saturnine" in interesting articles

• “It was,” he says, “a shock to a lot of people.”Where does all this leave that confused and pulled-apart thing, the human self? What is the nature of that which lies beneath? Are we that saturnine creature of the Old World, of Freud and Baumeister’s father? A beast that needs to be controlled? Or is there still a chance that the New World can prevail, with its hopeful vision of a pure heart that thirsts only for freedom?IN A 2000 PAPER in the journal Advances in Experimental Psychology, Baumeister and colleagues proposed a new way of thinking about the problem.  - How Roy Baumeister challenged the idea of self-esteem (2014)
• Alongside an inflatable bouncy castle was a veritable menagerie—not just miniature horses and llamas, but also zebras, reindeer, and ostriches.An Arellano family gathering, including Eduardo, Javier, and Benjamin (left, second from left, and fifth from the left) (PGR)Less obvious, but no less exotic, were the cars: the bulletproof blue Toyota 4Runner given to a top AFO enforcer, and next to it the bulletproof white Dodge Shadow that belonged to Eduardo Arellano Félix, the saturnine brother known as El Doctor because he had once been a practicing doctor.  - How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel

Meaning of "saturnine" in English

• showing a brooding ill humor
  Examples
  - 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
  - a sour temper
  - a sullen crowd
  
• bitter or scornful

Meaning of "saturnine" in Hindi

• शनि के प्रभाव से ग्रस्त ( Shani ke prabhav se grast, shani ke prabhaav se grast, shani ke prabhaw se grast)
• विषाक्त ( Vishakt, vishaakt, wishakt)
• गुस्सैल ( Gussail)

Synonyms of "saturnine"

• glum
• dour
• glowering
• moody
• sour
• morose
• dark
• sullen

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