dourly

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Definition of dourly in English English dictionary: in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly; in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"; gloomily, in a serious manner; In a dour manner
dour: Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy
dour: Stern, harsh and forbidding
dour: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the (Atasözü)ially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
dour: If you describe someone as dour, you mean that they are very serious and unfriendly. a dour, taciturn man + dourly dour·ly disapproval The old man stared dourly at them
dour: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J M Barrie
dour: unyielding and obstinate
dour: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T S Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
dour: gloomy and sullenly unhappy
dour: {s} gloomy, serious
dour: Barrie
dour: Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold

dourly

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dour·ly

[ 'du(-&)r, 'dau(-&)r ] (adjective.) 14th century. Middle English, from Latin durus hard; more at DURING.

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