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Meanings of moroseness in English

A sullen moody resentful disposition.

Usage of moroseness in English
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Knight spoke in an indescribable tone of bitterness that was almost moroseness.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
2
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
4
That intense, brooding moroseness, that wormwood hatred, does not often understand itself.
The Life of the Fields
5
The cliff was huge, sombre; it had a terrible granite moroseness.
A Romany of the Snows, vol. 4 / Being a Continuation of the Pers...
6
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
8
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
11
Further, he had noted, and felt, the increasing moroseness of his father's demeanour.
Clayhanger
12
But the loss of the money increased (were that possible) his moroseness.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
13
His usual taciturnity was unchanged, but it did not convey the idea of moroseness.
Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories
14
His temper was of the saturnine complexion, and without the least taint of moroseness.
Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1
15
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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