Example Sentences

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Norm expresses disdain for poetry, then continues to create a gorgeous Hemingway-style work of morosity.

From The Verge • Jul. 7, 2015

They did not care to improve their access, or increase their traffic; not through cold morosity, or even proud indifference, but because they had been so brought up, and so confirmed by circumstance.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

By a miracle the smith was not at the races, owing, as he explained, to his having "the toothaches," the two facts combined producing in him a morosity only equalled by that of Leigh Kelway.

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

Custine already remarked the expression of deep melancholy in the Grand Duke; and all those who have seen Alexander II. since have been struck with his sour and sullen morosity.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

With this language many did begin to feel offended; it seemed to be morosity and ill-will, the pusillanimity of old age, or a fear, that had now become exaggerated, of the skill of Hannibal.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh