morose
mo·rose
adjective
1.
- “a dark scowl”
- “the proverbially dour New England Puritan”
- “a glum, hopeless shrug”
- “he sat in moody silence”
- “a morose and unsociable manner”
- “a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius” Bruce Bliven
- “a sour temper”
- “a sullen crowd”
Origin
From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
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