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"
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)