Example Sentences

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It was hard to escape the feeling of moroseness.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024

The pianist Howard Watkins, dignified and unshowy, resisted moroseness as well as sentimentality, locating the power of the piece in its observational lens.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023

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

On my brief visits home I saw more truculence than moroseness, but that was as alarming, in its way.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2017

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

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon