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Meanings of dour in inglés

Moody and melancholic.

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      Stubbornly unyielding.

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            Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance.

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                  Examples for "grim"
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                  It is possible the situation is less grim than it currently appears.
                  Reuters
                  2
                  The Baghdad I left behind five years ago was a grim place.
                  The Guardian
                  3
                  Scotland's chief medical officer had another grim message for the public today.
                  BBC
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                  They bring the grim reality of male violence into our living rooms.
                  The Guardian
                  5
                  This was the actual, and often quite grim, reality of the frontier.
                  Empire of the Summer Moon
                  1
                  Russia responded with its own law forbidding Americans from adopting Russian children.
                  The Guardian
                  2
                  There were rules forbidding group meetings of more than a certain number.
                  Ahsoka
                  3
                  Burning in the right way There's something immediately forbidding about debal curry.
                  BBC
                  4
                  Fish rippled the water, but Braan insisted on maximum stealth, forbidding fishing.
                  Genellan: planetfall
                  5
                  The temperature was deadly cold; the dull houses were rime-covered and forbidding.
                  Roden's Corner
                  Usage of dour in inglés
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                  Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fans gather to watch 'dour German second division football'.
                  The Guardian
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                  The opening quarter-hour was dour with neither side taking a dominant role.
                  The Irish Times
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                  A dour deduction that Hamish reached, all by himself, just hours ago.
                  Existence
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                  And you seem... well, somewhat more dour than I've seen you before.
                  Proven guilty
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                  The clinic was located in a dour Victorian hospital in central London.
                  Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
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                  Gabriel de Witt straightened himself, looking grim and dour even for him.
                  Conrad’s Fate
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                  Hytner's version dismisses that question with a dour roll of the eyes.
                  The South African
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                  Since the meeting with the governor, he had grown dour and unapproachable.
                  Act of will
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                  Still, it is hard to look beyond the dour outlook for Deutsche.
                  Reuters
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                  Just do a lot of floating around and looking dour and everything.
                  James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
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                  Just such an amendment as the dour Minority Floor Leader had prepared.
                  Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Roger...
                  12
                  Perry and Mat, with their dour expressions, looked dreadfully out of place.
                  The capitol game
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                  Ovenden is generous about the cramped and dour Victoria line of 1968.
                  The Guardian
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                  Photographed at a Scottish train station, the 35-year-old looked dour and downcast.
                  News.com.au
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                  One glance at this dour old ruin said he'd already found it.
                  Act of will
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                  That usually acts in its favor, but sometimes it is exceedingly dour.
                  The Guardian
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