Example Sentences

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It was hard to escape the feeling of moroseness.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024

Karrer’s paramour sings — with transfixing moroseness — at a local bar called the Titanik, which brings to mind the old saying about rearranging deck chairs on board that doomed shipliner.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020

But there’s no moroseness over the far, far smaller crowds.

From Washington Times • May 11, 2017

Four years later, the universe appears to have chosen Darien, too: He radiates well-adjusted success, while Nadine’s natural moroseness has matured into crabby impatience with the world at large.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2016

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

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon