moroseness

It was hard to escape the feeling of moroseness.

The pianist Howard Watkins, dignified and unshowy, resisted moroseness as well as sentimentality, locating the power of the piece in its observational lens.

Despite his bouts of moroseness, Trump can also exhibit optimism not entirely grounded in reality.

The progression of the story is steadily downward, and at times the style flirts with melodrama, the mood with moroseness.

“But I have a feeling this moroseness is not only about Mummy, hmm?”