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 would be morose or silly by turns, according to whether she frowned or smiled; or else he would take himself off in a tragic sort of way that was very disturbing.
From Miss Billy by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
