moroseness

Both were unaffectedly devout, without the least tinge of moroseness or gloom.

As we rode on into the interminable wastes, he rallied me gleefully, but soon tired of my moroseness.

Instead of looking upon me with his usual moroseness, he said to me a hundred jocose things without my knowing what he meant.

Crossness and moroseness, for example, may be due to a dyspeptic condition and a chronically bad liver.

The pawnbroker made a very bad third—in fact, scarcely counted, owing to his own moroseness or reserve.