His countenance exhibited a strange mixture of morose ill-humour, shrewdness, and hypocrisy.
The nearer they approached the desired haven, the more contradictory and morose Mr. Lootie became.
But these men seemed with one accord to leave him in possession of the bench at which he sat; nor did I wonder much at this when I saw the morose and savage glance which he shot at me as I approached.
The change had dated from that time; instead of a careless, light-spirited youth he had become in a moment a morose and restive churl, as difficult to manage as an unbroken colt.
Yet even in this play we find the story of the tricking of Morose by his nephew, Dauphine, resulting in the marriage of Morose to Dauphine's page.
Thus supremely happy, and finding in one another constant satisfaction, we would laugh at those morose philosophers who deny that complete happiness can be found on earth.
Would not my lords commend the priest whose zeal Seized on the sick, morose or moribund, By the palsy-smitten finger, made it cross His brow correctly at the critical time?
The silent man may simply be devoid of interests, morose and with nothing to say.
Society must always frown upon the morose and solitary drinker--the man who drinks merely for the purpose of injecting alcohol into his system.
Her father, who would not permit the mention of his son's name, nevertheless plainly had him on his mind, for he grew more than ever gloomy, morose and irritable.
On the way down the street he told stories of Jimmy's abilities as a beggar, and they all laughed, all save Jackson, who was gloomy and morose and walked along shrouded in a kind of gloom that impressed Archie powerfully.
Dillon was gloomy and morosebecause Mason had refused to join him.
He was a worthy old fellow, though a little morose from living in solitude, all his family were dead.
Most sorrowful of sinners, his morose delectation scourged his nerves and extorted the darkest music from his lyre.
He was saluted with every variety of abuse, but this amateur of fine sensations had forever settled the charge of morose aloofness, of voluptuous cynicism.
How witty people used to be here who were morose when they got out of the door; and how courteous and friendly men who slandered and hated each other everywhere else!
Even the gaunt old women lifted their morose faces to the sun and muttered unaccustomed thanks.
Curtis expected to find Brisbane a poor shambling wreck of a man, morose and sorrowful to look upon, and his astonishment was correspondingly profound as the ex-Senator descended from the train.
In "Lazarus" he contrasts the morose Jew, whom Jesus brought back from death into life after three days and three nights in the darkness of the tomb, with the life-loving Augustus.
Now I comprehend why thou art somorose and why thou takest no delight in thy second life.
The death of his father and the seeds of the pessimistic philosophy gave the inner life of the budding novelist a morose and pessimistic direction.
Morose had married a woman, recommended by his barber, and whose fidelity he suspected, and the following passage occurs, between Morose and Truewit.
Thurlow was a man of morose temperament, and uncertain humor.
In the rooms that had once resounded with conversation and laughter until long after midnight, there now assembled a mere handful of rather morose and chilly comrades, who did not thaw out even over their wine.
Schnetz listened to these propositions with his usual morose calmness, abused his imperial terribly, and then remarked--that this commission was not to his taste.
Looking up, I found my morose canoeman on the other side of the fire, leaning so close to a tree, he was barely visible in the shadows.
Was the Sioux wife with her white slave really in the north country, or was she near, and did that explain my morose Iroquois' all-night vigils?
It was as if the sulky morose fit had come over him again, but it did not last, for he half turned his head and said: "I hit one on 'em such a crack on the nut.
The fact was his thoughts were running in one particular direction, and I soon found which, for he began in his morose way: "Just as if I should overload or ill-use a hoss!
The deserted husband, who had climbed far up the ladder of diplomacy, was celebrated for his morose reticence about his personal affairs.
It will be far better than if I were present to silence the mirth with my morose presence.
Who could now recognize the morose and bitter Vulture-maiden in the beatified girl who moved about as though borne on invisible wings?
Let all Melancholy and ill-tim'd Gaiety be banished out of Doors; be notmorose nor frolicksome.
The Example of a prudent Man, excellently managing a young morose Wife, by making his Complaint to her Father.
A cold Frenchman is rather a morose and miserable being, but his spirits always rise with sunshine, like the mercury of a thermometer.
Every errand boy was proud of him, and if he were not so unapproachable and morose he would already have been made to feel it.
The hermit also appeared to miss him and became moremorose than ever.
Here he was, in a way, utterly alone so far as age means companionship, and worse than that, one of his two companions was morose and misanthropic.
Canute was none of these, but he was morose and gloomy, and liquor took him through all the hells of Dante.
He remembered how bitter and morose he had grown during his stay at his brother's studio when Katharine Gaylord was working there, and how he had wounded Adriance on the night of his last concert in New York.
These presently smoked before Gerard and company; and Peter's face, sad and slightly morose at the loss of the savage hog, expanded and shone.
She was unlike any one I have seen before or since; she cared for nothing, yet was not morose or peevish or hard-hearted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "morose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
