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morose
/məˈɹoʊs/
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What does morose mean?
adjective
- Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
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He had been there often, during a whole year, and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there.
He became more morose and irritable, and when camp was pitched at once made his nest, where his driver fed him.
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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.
If you find yourself morose in dreams, you will awake to find the world, as far as you are concerned, going fearfully wrong.
The count ordered his carriage that he might drive to Sokólniki, and sat in his study with folded hands, morose, sallow, and taciturn.