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moroseness

NOUN
  1. a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
  2. a sullen moody resentful disposition

How To Use moroseness In A Sentence

  • Uncomfortable with his sudden moroseness, Caitlin decided it was time to leave and she rose from the chair.
  • His opposition to the policy of militant nationalism which inspiredthe Mexican War had, he believed, ruined his political hopes; and living constantly with the great unhewn stones of his ambition,he was often betrayed, in the early fifties, into a moroseness or dejection of temper, for he saw no way either to rid himselfof his ambitious desires or to put them to a constructive use. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
  • Their moroseness was a prelude to what was to follow. American Prisoners of the Revolution
  • The volatility and the moroseness within rise up repeatedly out of an uncontrollable inner conviction that the world stands ready to humiliate him.
  • The men were not by any means "downhearted," and would rather have died than admit that they were depressed, but the brightness was all rubbed off, and a moroseness, "Contemptible", by "Casualty"
  • Long since, as one feature of his developing moroseness, he had ceased from barking. CHAPTER XXX
  • I don't recall him expressing "moroseness" over the 4,000+ dead Americans, 20, 000+ maimed Americans, and 600, 000 thousand dead Iraqis in the war for which he relentlessly propagandized. Bart Motes: W. is not Batman
  • He must have noticed her trepidation, because he veered from the moroseness of the topic.
  • I am confident that his sleep was stupefied and dreamless, and that he awoke next day merely to heaviness and moroseness, and that if he lives to-day he does not remember that night, so passing was it as an incident. Chapter 4
  • Regular meals keep the blood sugar level at a normal high, and prevents the terrible let down feeling that can result in moroseness, negativism, and sometimes even anger. Archive 2007-04-01
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