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be morose



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And not to be morose, but Nantz is turning 61 this May.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 28, 2020

Pop, as a sound, has always been guileless and optimistic; these days, chart-topping songs tend to be morose, melancholy, and angry.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2019

But he is too busy to be morose.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2014

“I tend to be morose sometimes,” he said, and described his job as an “endeavor” that sometimes could be called “an ordeal.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2013

First I became cynical, but, as I was altogether too comfortable to be morose, my cynicism was of a good-natured character.

From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by James De Mille




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