morose
adjective
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
moroseness
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a word derived from
morose.
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
Atlanta is very often not funny and might be mistaken for a heart-baring “sadcom”; its moroseness, though, is deliberately impersonal.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2018
“But I have a feeling this moroseness is not only about Mummy, hmm?”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
