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mo·rose (m

-r

, mô-)

adj.

Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.

[Latin mrsus, peevish, from ms, mr-, self-will, caprice, manner; see m-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

mo·rosely adv.

mo·roseness n.

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Noun	1.	moroseness - a gloomy ill-tempered feeling sullenness, glumness moodiness - a sullen gloomy feeling
	2.	moroseness - a sullen moody resentful disposition sullenness, sourness, sulkiness ill nature - a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition

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moroseness

n → Verdrießlichkeit f, → Missmut m

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And the escort, as if afraid, in the grievous condition they themselves were in, of giving way to the pity they felt for the prisoners and so rendering their own plight still worse, treated them with particular moroseness and severity.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

But a grumpy recluse cannot worry his subordinates: whereas the man in whom the sense of duty is strong (or, perhaps, only the sense of self-importance), and who persists in airing on deck his moroseness all day - and perhaps half the night - becomes a grievous infliction.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

In his opinion of the female sex, he exceeded the moroseness of Aristotle himself: he looked on a woman as on an animal of domestic use, of somewhat higher consideration than a cat, since her offices were of rather more importance; but the difference between these two was, in his estimation, so small, that, in his marriage contracted with Mr Allworthy's lands and tenements, it would have been pretty equal which of them he had taken into the bargain.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

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