moroseness

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Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness

He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.

{n} sourness, peevishness
Sourness of temper; sulenness
{i} sullenness; gloominess; irritability
a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
a sullen moody resentful disposition
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Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
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gloomy
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{a} sullen, sour, peevish, cross, illnatured
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The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo
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Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy
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Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe
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Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts
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{s} sad, gloomy, irritable, bitter
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showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially 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"
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Someone who is morose is miserable, bad-tempered, and not willing to talk very much to other people. She was morose, pale, and reticent. + morosely mo·rose·ly One elderly man sat morosely at the bar. bad-tempered, unhappy, and silent (morosus, from mos; MORAL)
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