morose

He can seem on occasion morose, on other occasions petulant, and never comfortable in interviews.

Test audiences found the original ending too morose and wanted to see Alex get blown away.

I found the morose philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spengler) the most interesting.

He carried with him the insecurities, foibles, and morose visions of fin de siècle Europe.

Lee McQueen could see beauty in the morose and even the morbid.

How many in Melbourne injure wealth and brain, I leave to more skilled and morose critics.

There are few greater annoyances of life than an irritable woman, rendered doubly morose by the infirmities of years.

He went upstairs to his room in this morose state and, procuring a revolver, after a short time came down and shot at his sister.

I paced the deck for hours, and grew morose and nervous, chafing under the slowness of the stout craft.

Shiel half turned away, not sullen, not morose, but with a strange apathy settled on him.