morose
Example Sentences
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I have some doubts about that being the primary depressant, considering that the second, third and fourth most morose metros on the list are all in the Sun Belt: Riverside-San Bernardino, Phoenix and Miami.
From Seattle Times
According to her family, Reynolds continued to alternate between these two selves — the first literate and morose, the second childlike and ebullient — for the next 15 years.
From New York Times
His slightly bemused, morose and frightfully shy, hands-deep-in-pockets approach to the prince is astonishing.
From Seattle Times
The world, in the shape of Spud’s busy family and Lymie’s morose, widowed father, accepts the relationship without quite acknowledging what it means, and the narrator is both candid and circumspect.
From New York Times
But tell the athletes who sacrificed and competed, like the ones pictured right below his morose piece.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
