Definition of "morose" []

• Sullenly melancholy; gloomy. (adjective)

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• "Quite lately -- yesterday or the day before -- his mother had spoken to him, gently but very seriously, about what she called the morose and savage fits which would bring misery upon him if he did not set himself earnestly to overcome them."
• "With perhaps the exception of Steven Spielberg's "Munich," which dovetails nicely in morose spirit and disturbing milieu, very few movies about the 1970s (that weren't actually made in the 1970s) look and feel as perfect as "Carlos" does."
• "Part of me being all morose is that I am essentially still on bed rest, week two."