How to Use morose in a Sentence

morose

adjective
Definition of morosenext
Synonyms for morosenext
  • He became morose and withdrawn and would not talk to anyone.
  • But No Shame is mostly more morose and less fun than that.
    — Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • What’s different this time is that the songs’ tone is not nearly as morose.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In the first couple of episodes of the new show, Pike is morose and obsessing about his future.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • Despite the cemetery's name, many of the graves' poems are downright morose.
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
  • His story, which is loosely based on the death of his own mother, is not morose or overwrought.
    — Emily Zemler, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2016
  • Mark Wahlberg would kindly ask you to forget the morose slog that was Max Payne.
    — Matt Patches, Esquire, 27 Aug. 2015
  • But if that’s too morose, imagine a lifetime achievement award.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • The sound of the Weeknd’s smash is not as morose as its accidentally timely themes might suggest.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Sounds morose but guess what: life is a terminal condition.
    — AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2017
  • There’s a dismissive sourness here, though, too morose for satire.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • When their campouts ended, they were either thrilled or morose, with no middle ground.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Even as tech optimism is obvious, sentiment in much of the rest of the market remains morose.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2020
  • But the mug shot of an unshaven, tired and morose looking Woods won’t play well in any marketing campaign.
    — Jeff Schultz, ajc, 29 May 2017
  • Billie poured herself into the emotions of every syllable, doing her best to let the morose piano track swell and fill the arena.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2020
  • While Ethel is vivacious and full of life, Norman has become morose and seems to have given up on life.
    — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Up and down the span of the bridge, orange armband volunteers were cheerily greeting morose single people.
    — Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Campus was quiet and morose, the silences quivering with early-term nerves.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Left yearning to die while death has gone on strike, the depressed hero must navigate a morose new existence all of sudden freed from the bonds of mortality.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The score by Zachary Seman and Robert Miller leans too often toward the slow and morose for the good of the film’s forward movement.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Businessfolk, morose of late as GDP growth has slowed, snapped out of their malaise.
    — The Economist, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Attached was an illustration of a morose woman in scrubs wearing two different socks.
    — refinery29.com, 1 June 2018
  • Can’t a morose mutant warrior simply sail off into the sunset with his surrogate father?
    — Lisa Liebman, HWD, 3 Mar. 2017
  • The rest fall into the same category of morose rock anthems that Linkin Park has been dutifully putting out for years.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
  • But Jakob (Edward Dring), the boy whose morose and wealthy father has just hired her, isn’t ill.
    — Michael O’Sullivan, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • But before the game, in the old Oakland Coliseum, Favre seemed morose.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • This is a morose serial-killer thriller, visually muted like a TV movie.
    — Gem Seddon, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The mega-fame of Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen, and so many other morose stars would seem to say otherwise.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Explaining things to my sons that morning had not been easy, and my own morose face was mirrored by those of my fellow New Yorkers on the subway ride into work.
    — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Explaining things to my sons that morning had not been easy, and my own morose face was mirrored by those of my fellow New Yorkers on the subway ride into work.
    — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017

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