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Significats de moroseness en anglès

A sullen moody resentful disposition.

Ús de moroseness en anglès
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Knight spoke in an indescribable tone of bitterness that was almost moroseness.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Yes, May thought, it was moroseness; he was unhappy, and no wonder.
A Venetian June
3
Nine-tenths of all loneliness, sensitiveness, despondency, moroseness, are connected with personal interests.
For Auld Lang Syne: A Book of Friendship
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That intense, brooding moroseness, that wormwood hatred, does not often understand itself.
The Life of the Fields
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The cliff was huge, sombre; it had a terrible granite moroseness.
A Romany of the Snows, vol. 4 / Being a Continuation of the Pers...
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In a fit of exceptional moroseness it had killed the Bickelbys' German governess.
Beasts and Super-Beasts
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Then they were decorous and solemn to the verge of moroseness.
The Story of a Bad Boy
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The natural moroseness of those people's temper, makes them harsh masters.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned a...
9
But with Abe Bolton drinking tended to develop moroseness into savagery.
The Red Acorn
10
He suffered now with a fierceness, a moroseness, unknown to him of old.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
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Further, he had noted, and felt, the increasing moroseness of his father's demeanour.
Clayhanger
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But the loss of the money increased (were that possible) his moroseness.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
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His usual taciturnity was unchanged, but it did not convey the idea of moroseness.
Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories
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His temper was of the saturnine complexion, and without the least taint of moroseness.
Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1
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His moroseness might have alienated me if I had regarded myself as a nobody.
Seven Men [Excerpts]
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Their moroseness was a prelude to what was to follow.
American Prisoners of the Revolution
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