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Meanings of moroseness in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sullenness"
Examples for "sullenness"
1
The prizefighter showed both in face and manner a certain stiff sullenness.
2
Some sullenness of temperament seemed to find expression in the fellow's movements.
3
These words did not dissipate the sullenness which her looks had betrayed.
4
His bloodless face and dim eyes showed no feeling beyond indifferent sullenness.
5
A frown of sullenness or discontent is but one degree less hateful.
1
Despite the sourness of the moment, he was pleased with Ruth herself.
2
Such a continual contrariety irritates and stirs up sourness in the heart.
3
They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant.
4
Breakfast did, in fact, take some of the sourness out of me.
5
The vanilla can take away from the sourness, which is fairly subtle.
1
They need to learn early to deal with the sulkiness of the male.
2
I found Alicia blushing, and Mrs. Baggs impenetrably wrapped up in dignified sulkiness.
3
My conceit and sulkiness died in that storm, as did many another thing.
4
If he persecuted the Tories, their sulkiness would infallibly be turned into fury.
5
His sulkiness was breaking down and he was showing some agitation.
1
There's only so much glumness a secretary of state for health can take.
2
For in him glumness was a sign that he recognised defeat.
3
But now, her aggressive, menacing, uncommunicative glumness was prolonged for days and days.
4
A boy your age shouldn't have any problems that would cause such glumness.
5
Try it out and notice how it lifts you up out of your glumness.
Usage of moroseness in English
1
Knight spoke in an indescribable tone of bitterness that was almost moroseness.
2
Yes, May thought, it was moroseness; he was unhappy, and no wonder.
3
Nine-tenths of all loneliness, sensitiveness, despondency, moroseness, are connected with personal interests.
4
That intense, brooding moroseness, that wormwood hatred, does not often understand itself.
5
The cliff was huge, sombre; it had a terrible granite moroseness.
6
In a fit of exceptional moroseness it had killed the Bickelbys' German governess.
7
Then they were decorous and solemn to the verge of moroseness.
8
The natural moroseness of those people's temper, makes them harsh masters.
9
But with Abe Bolton drinking tended to develop moroseness into savagery.
10
He suffered now with a fierceness, a moroseness, unknown to him of old.
11
Further, he had noted, and felt, the increasing moroseness of his father's demeanour.
12
But the loss of the money increased (were that possible) his moroseness.
13
His usual taciturnity was unchanged, but it did not convey the idea of moroseness.
14
His temper was of the saturnine complexion, and without the least taint of moroseness.
15
His moroseness might have alienated me if I had regarded myself as a nobody.
16
Their moroseness was a prelude to what was to follow.
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United Kingdom
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