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moroseness
noun as in asperity
noun as in sullenness
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Both were unaffectedly devout, without the least tinge of moroseness or gloom.
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As we rode on into the interminable wastes, he rallied me gleefully, but soon tired of my moroseness.
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Instead of looking upon me with his usual moroseness, he said to me a hundred jocose things without my knowing what he meant.
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Crossness and moroseness, for example, may be due to a dyspeptic condition and a chronically bad liver.
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The pawnbroker made a very bad third—in fact, scarcely counted, owing to his own moroseness or reserve.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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