dour, adj.
showing a brooding ill humor
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dark dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen
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"a dark scowl""the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
"a glum, hopeless shrug"
"he sat in moody silence"
"a morose and unsociable manner"
"a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
"a sour temper"
"a sullen crowd"
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harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
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dour forbidding grim
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"a dour, self-sacrificing life""a forbidding scowl"
"a grim man loving duty more than humanity"
"undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
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stubbornly unyielding
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dogged dour persistent pertinacious tenacious unyielding
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"dogged persistence""dour determination"
"the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"
"a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot
"men tenacious of opinion"
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