Example sentences for: morose

How can you use “morose” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ' The modern sense of ill-humored or rudely morose dates from about the mid-17th century, but the “u” spelling had taken over about a hundred years earlier, perhaps, one fancies, as an act of revenge by the churls.

  • Both are married--Anna to the morose Luria and Grein to the long-suffering Leah, with whom he has two grown children whom he regards with a kind of detached disgust.

  • appetite, appetites mighty, enormous, gargantuan, endless, limitless, unlimited, unfailing, uncontrollable, lusty, voracious, ravenous, (in) satiable, sharp, ferocious, rapacious, devouring, brutish, wolfish, healthy, hearty, greedy, keen, robust, inordinate, substantial, unbridled, avaricious, poor, grotesque, morbid, morose, raucous, finicky, discriminating,, (im) moderate, shrunk, new-found, catholic, postprandial

  • After the morose twilight years of the Sun King, the societal tone changed with the satiric pen of Voltaire and the erotic fantasies of Watteau’s paintings and Marivaux’s comedies.

  • And they chalk up his morose lyrics to his 4-year-old son's 1991 death.


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