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morose

/məˈɹoʊs/

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What does morose mean?

adjective

  1. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

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IPA pronunciation

/məˈɹoʊs/

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/mɔɹˈoʊs/
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He had been there often, during a whole year, and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there.
Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesProject Gutenberg ebook #98
He became more morose and irritable, and when camp was pitched at once made his nest, where his driver fed him.
Jack LondonThe call of the wildProject Gutenberg ebook #215
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All that day and the next and the next Holmes was in a mood which his friends would call taciturn, and others morose.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108
If you find yourself morose in dreams, you will awake to find the world, as far as you are concerned, going fearfully wrong.
Gustavus Hindman MillerTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical ExpositionProject Gutenberg ebook #926
The count ordered his carriage that he might drive to Sokólniki, and sat in his study with folded hands, morose, sallow, and taciturn.
Leo, graf TolstoyWar and PeaceTranslated by Aylmer Maude; Louise MaudeProject Gutenberg ebook #2600