dour
adjective
sullen; gloomy.
dourly
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a word derived from
dour.
Example Sentences
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Elves were never a personal favorite, mostly because they're so dourly intense.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2022
“They’re all very timeless,” she said, adding a bit dourly.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2018
A fantastic miniseries has arrived that at last fully tells the painful history of being gay in modern America — and no, silly, it’s not ABC’s dourly dutiful “When We Rise.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2017
Unfortunately it’s also dourly serious, overlong, overwrought and hollow.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2016
Poppy said dourly, “Is this an appropriate gift for a young man to give a young woman?”
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
