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Significados de moroseness en inglés

A sullen moody resentful disposition.

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        Examples for "sullenness"
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        The prizefighter showed both in face and manner a certain stiff sullenness.
        Steve Yeager
        2
        Some sullenness of temperament seemed to find expression in the fellow's movements.
        Man-Size
        3
        These words did not dissipate the sullenness which her looks had betrayed.
        Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
        4
        His bloodless face and dim eyes showed no feeling beyond indifferent sullenness.
        Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
        5
        A frown of sullenness or discontent is but one degree less hateful.
        Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
        1
        Despite the sourness of the moment, he was pleased with Ruth herself.
        Crown of Slaves
        2
        Such a continual contrariety irritates and stirs up sourness in the heart.
        The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
        3
        They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant.
        The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (...
        4
        Breakfast did, in fact, take some of the sourness out of me.
        Dexter in the Dark
        5
        The vanilla can take away from the sourness, which is fairly subtle.
        The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
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        They need to learn early to deal with the sulkiness of the male.
        Priest
        2
        I found Alicia blushing, and Mrs. Baggs impenetrably wrapped up in dignified sulkiness.
        A Rogue's Life
        3
        My conceit and sulkiness died in that storm, as did many another thing.
        Painted Windows
        4
        If he persecuted the Tories, their sulkiness would infallibly be turned into fury.
        The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
        5
        His sulkiness was breaking down and he was showing some agitation.
        The Eternal City
        1
        There's only so much glumness a secretary of state for health can take.
        The Guardian
        2
        For in him glumness was a sign that he recognised defeat.
        The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
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        But now, her aggressive, menacing, uncommunicative glumness was prolonged for days and days.
        The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)
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        A boy your age shouldn't have any problems that would cause such glumness.
        The Forest Monster of Oz
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        Try it out and notice how it lifts you up out of your glumness.
        The Irish Times
        Uso de moroseness en inglés
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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
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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...
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        But with Abe Bolton drinking tended to develop moroseness into savagery.
        The Red Acorn
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        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
        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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