How to Use morose in a Sentence

morose

adjective

• He became morose and withdrawn and would not talk to anyone.
• Leno joked that the title was too morose for a Christmas gift, and moved on.
  — Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
• Mark Wahlberg would kindly ask you to forget the morose slog that was Max Payne.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 27 Aug. 2015
• But No Shame is mostly more morose and less fun than that.
  — Philly.com, 21 June 2018
• But Jakob (Edward Dring), the boy whose morose and wealthy father has just hired her, isn’t ill.
  — Michael O’Sullivan, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• In the first couple of episodes of the new show, Pike is morose and obsessing about his future.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022
• But none of it would have landed had Gad, Lee, and the rest of the Frozen 2 creative team stuck with the morose original cut.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2025
• The score by Zachary Seman and Robert Miller leans too often toward the slow and morose for the good of the film’s forward movement.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2017
• What’s different this time is that the songs’ tone is not nearly as morose.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2017
• Businessfolk, morose of late as GDP growth has slowed, snapped out of their malaise.
  — The Economist, 27 Sep. 2019
• Despite the cemetery's name, many of the graves' poems are downright morose.
  — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
• The mega-fame of Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen, and so many other morose stars would seem to say otherwise.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2019
• And didn't have this hangdog, morose quality that Brad brought to it.
  — H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
• His story, which is loosely based on the death of his own mother, is not morose or overwrought.
  — Emily Zemler, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2016
• Labuschagne cut a rather morose figure in the first Bazball- inspired Ashes encounter in June last year.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
• Daniels is morose and whiny and Reynolds is hammy and over-the-top, which allows Stone to steal the movie, giving it its only modicum of zest and soul.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• And, unrehearsed, Rogers sang the morose song of past love and played the piano, a real treat for fans who've been following her for the past decade.
  — Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2024
• But the mug shot of an unshaven, tired and morose looking Woods won’t play well in any marketing campaign.
  — Jeff Schultz, ajc, 29 May 2017
• In a slightly morose way, the Justice for Barb shrine feels like a fitting tribute to one of 2016's most beloved characters.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 July 2017
• But before the game, in the old Oakland Coliseum, Favre seemed morose.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• While Ethel is vivacious and full of life, Norman has become morose and seems to have given up on life.
  — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 25 Oct. 2017
• The story is not a morose one, but rather a celebration of the charisma that made audiences fall in love with Fox throughout the 1980s.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• But if that’s too morose, imagine a lifetime achievement award.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The sound of the Weeknd’s smash is not as morose as its accidentally timely themes might suggest.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2020
• There’s a dismissive sourness here, though, too morose for satire.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Gone are the magnetically morose raps laid over dusty soul loops.
  — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
• When their campouts ended, they were either thrilled or morose, with no middle ground.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
• The subtext of spousal abuse, coupled with a tragic fate that befalls one of the store’s workers, lends the film, by Thomas Stuber, a melancholy tone bordering on the morose.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
• The subtext of spousal abuse, coupled with a tragic fate that befalls one of the store’s workers, lends the film, by Thomas Stuber, a melancholy tone bordering on the morose.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019
• The subtext of spousal abuse, coupled with a tragic fate that befalls one of the store’s workers, lends the film, by Thomas Stuber, a melancholy tone bordering on the morose.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019