morose
Definition: Gloomy; melancholy
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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - By George Gissing
...I remember, once, when I let fall a remark on the subject of horse-racing among friends chatting together, I was voted `` morose . "...
Ten Thousand a Year - By Samuel Warren
...The vain man is vainer; the voluble, more voluble; the morose, more morose; the detractor, more detracting; the sycophant, more sycophantic, and so forth ....
The Prose Works - By Walter Scott
...His reception of Swift was short, dry, and morose; and he, who thought he deserved the contrary from a minister whose principles he had professed and supported, departed, almost vowing revenge .1 With Somers, also, he seems at this juncture to have quarrelled ....
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...Why, I have been ashamed of your morose-ness there !...
The Call of the Wild - By Jack London, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), Philip R. Goodwin, Charles Livingston Bull, Charles Edward Hooper
...He was a gloomy, morose fellow, and he showed Curly plainly that all he desired was to be left alone, and further, that there would be trouble if he were not left alone . "...
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed morose-ness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard, the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult ^ Catherine perceived, as well as I did, that he held it rather a punishment than a gratification to endure our company, and she made no scruple of proposing, presently, to depart ....
War and Peace - By Leo Tolstoy
...He might, no doubt, have found more comfortable lodgings, but he was one of those people who like to find life difficult, that they may have the better right to be morose and taciturn, and who on all occasions affect extreme haste and overwhelming cares . "...
White Fang - By Jack London
...But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders ....
The House of Mirth - By Edith Wharton, A. B. Wenzell
...Dorset, of late, had grown more than usually morose and incalculable, and Ned Silverton went about with an air that seemed to challenge the universe ....
Bleak House - By Charles Dickens, Frederick Barnard
...The other woman rose on seeing me; and the men, though they were, as visual, sulky and silent, each gave me a morose nod of recognition ....
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - By Mark Twain, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
...Some of the men had been trying to understand why Joan continued to be alert, vigorous, and confident while the strongest men in the company were fagged with the heavy marches and exposure and were become morose and irritable ....
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...He betrayed no weakness which harassed all your feelings with considerations as to how its faltering must be propped; from him broke no irritability which startled calm and quenched mirth; his lips let fall no caustic that burned to the bone; his eye shot no morose shafts that went cold and rusty and venomed through your head : beside him was rest and refuge--around him, fostering sunshine ....
Mary Barton - By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mrs Gaskell
...The mind became soured and morose, and lost much of its equipoise ....
Tarzan of the Apes - By A.C. McClurg & Company, Edgar Rice Burroughs
...His strange life had left him neither morose nor bloodthirsty ....
The Deerslayer, Or, The First War-path - By James Fenimore Cooper
...At times he was kind, but in general, with her more especially, he was stern and morose ....