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  • He became morose and withdrawn and would not talk to anyone.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
  • 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
  • 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

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