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moroseness

/muh-rohs/US // məˈroʊs //UK // (məˈrəʊs) //

道德观念,道德观,停滞不前,停尸

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
    • : characterized by or expressing gloom.

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Examples

  • Both were unaffectedly devout, without the least tinge of moroseness or gloom.

  • As we rode on into the interminable wastes, he rallied me gleefully, but soon tired of my moroseness.

  • Instead of looking upon me with his usual moroseness, he said to me a hundred jocose things without my knowing what he meant.

  • Crossness and moroseness, for example, may be due to a dyspeptic condition and a chronically bad liver.

  • The pawnbroker made a very bad third—in fact, scarcely counted, owing to his own moroseness or reserve.