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Meanings of morose in English

Moody and melancholic.

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      Usage of morose in English
      1
      A trail ran through the woods; a trail singularly morose and unattractive.
      O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
      2
      The missionaries have in consequence been accused of being morose and narrow-minded.
      The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific
      3
      The morose moon started up, a tragic hieroglyph in the passionless sky.
      Visionaries
      4
      Even the animals, in their woven willow enclosures, appeared bedraggled and morose.
      Hood
      5
      He was morose and disheartened; gloomy thoughts revolved behind his aching brow.
      Married
      6
      During the progress of the meal Kathleen West appeared, silent and morose.
      Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
      7
      To my mind, the name in that form is morose and downbeat.
      The Irish Times
      8
      He became morose, violent and cruel, and obsessed with altogether false ideas.
      London's Underworld
      9
      To have deliberately written notes in such terms would have been morose.
      Life of Johnson, Volume 1 / 1709-1765
      10
      The morose rhinoceros, though less numerous, are found in every thick jungle.
      The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
      11
      Yet it was not this alone that made him gloomy and morose.
      The picture of Dorian Gray
      12
      You just can't be bothered by the slightly morose aspect of it.
      NY Magazine
      13
      Those about him had never seen the count so morose and irritable.
      War and Peace
      14
      General Richardson was a morose and at times a very disagreeable man.
      The Vigilance Committee of 1856
      15
      The mind became soured and morose, and lost much of its equipoise.
      Mary Barton
      16
      A morose elderly young demonstrator brightened momentarily at the sight of Lewisham.
      Love and Mr. Lewisham
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