be morose

Example Sentences

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And not to be morose, but Nantz is turning 61 this May.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 28, 2020

Pop, as a sound, has always been guileless and optimistic; these days, chart-topping songs tend to be morose, melancholy, and angry.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2019

But he is too busy to be morose.

From Washington Times • Nov. 29, 2014

“I tend to be morose sometimes,” he said, and described his job as an “endeavor” that sometimes could be called “an ordeal.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2013

I knew my cousin Gervais to be morose and cruel; yet I had done him no harm; I had always stood his friend.

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha