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Morose   /mərˈoʊs/   Listen
adjective
Morose  adj.  
1.
Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity."
2.
Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. (Obs.)
Synonyms: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty; churlish; surly; ill-humored.





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"Morose" Quotes from Famous Books



... artist's room, on the floor, was a small child, whose movements, and they were many, were viewed with huge dissatisfaction by Charles Gatty, Esq. This personage, pencil in hand, sat slouching and morose, looking ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... supposed that the Bedawin are morose, for beneath their outward severity lies a great power for sympathy and affection. The love of the Arab for his horse is proverbial, and his kindness to all ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt • R. Talbot Kelly
... Zeitung observes that the ex-Kaiser has grown very silent and morose. It is supposed that he has something or other ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 8, 1919 • Various
... that requires solution—the harmonising and justifying of the contradictory opposites in Renaissance character: Fra Lippo Lippi breaking his own vows and breaking a nun's for her; Perugino leading his money-grubbing, morose life and painting ethereal saints and madonnas in his bottega, while the Baglioni filled the streets outside with slaughter; Lorenzo de' Medici bleeding literally and figuratively his fellow-citizens, going from that occupation ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... their Approbation, or whether they comply with the Importunity of the Actors, who tell them, that such is the Disposition of the Audience, that no Plays of that kind will appear beautiful, if they are strip'd of those Embellishments and Ornaments of Wit, which some morose and unfashionable People stile impure and obscene, and that to leave out those ingenious Strokes and Heightnings of Fancy, and put into the Mouths of the Actors only good Sense and modest and clean ...
— Essay upon Wit • Sir Richard Blackmore


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