2. Some have deserved censure for a morose and affected taciturnity; others have made speeches though they had nothing to say.
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2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
1. Sourness of temper; sullenness. moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompanied with it. It denotes more of silence and severity or ill humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes peevishness.
Sourness of temper; sulenness.
Sullenness Roget’s Thesaurus §901a
N. sullenness, morosity, spleen, churlishness, irascibility, moodiness, perversity, obstinacy, torvity|, spinosity, crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor, sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl, grouch, huff
Adj. sullen, sulky, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed, grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor, knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed, sour, sour as a crab, surly, moody, spleenish, spleenly, splenetic, cankered, cross, crossgrained, perverse, wayward, humorsome, restiff, restive, cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward, cussed, dogged, grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts, scowling, glowering, growling, grouchy, peevish
Misanthropy Roget’s Thesaurus §911
N. misanthropy, incivism, egotism &c. # (selfishness) 943, moroseness, cynicism, misanthrope, misanthropist, egotist, cynic, man hater, timon, diogenes, woman hater, misogynist
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