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What (who) is morosely - definition
Morosely
·adv Sourly; with sullen austerity.
morosely
see morose
morose
![''[[Melencolia I]]'' by [[Albrecht Dürer]], 1514](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albrecht Dürer - Melencolia I - Google Art Project ( AGDdr3EHmNGyA).jpg?width=200 "''[[Melencolia I]]'' by [[Albrecht Dürer]], 1514")
![Ch. Boirau, ''The Spleen'' (''Melancholy''). Postcard, c. 1915.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ch. Boirau, "The Spleen" ("Melancholy").jpg?width=200 "Ch. Boirau, ''The Spleen'' (''Melancholy''). Postcard, c. 1915.")
![The young [[John Donne]], the very picture of fashionable melancholy in the Jacobean era](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John Donne BBC News.jpg?width=200 "The young [[John Donne]], the very picture of fashionable melancholy in the Jacobean era")
![''Melancholy'', [[etching]] by [[Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione]], 1640s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melancholy-Castiglione.jpg?width=200 "''Melancholy'', [[etching]] by [[Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione]], 1640s")
![Frontispiece]] for the 1628 3rd edition of ''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1626, 2nd edition.jpg?width=200 "Frontispiece]] for the 1628 3rd edition of ''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]''")
MOOD DISORDER OF NON-SPECIFIC DEPRESSION
Black bile; Melancholic; Melencolia; Melencoly; Lugubrious; Moroseness; Morose; Wistfulness; Cult of melancholia; Melancholia (temperament)
Someone who is morose is miserable, bad-tempered, and not willing to talk very much to other people.
She was morose, pale, and reticent.
ADJ
• morosely
One elderly man sat morosely at the bar.
ADV: usu ADV with v
Examples of use of morosely
1. In seat 7A, Jose de Jesus Galea, 37, stared morosely out his window, unmoved.
2. Turning, I saw Holford sitting at the bar, drinking deeply, and morosely watching his wife‘s behaviour.
3. At the red–brick Hotel Chilimaco in the center of town, receptionist Ruth Pantoja sat morosely in the dark.
4. Pets who were left behind – thousands of them – seemed to stare morosely from front porches or roam bewildered through soggy streets.
5. It‘s down to getting containers of food into here." In the market in Gaza City, Mohammed Abu Aqleen, 37, held his head morosely Saturday, leaning on a pile of blue jeans.