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
He felt not a little hurt at her unceremonious departure without a word of farewell to him and was inclined to be morose and splenetic during the succeeding fortnight of convalescence.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
