morosity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morosity
Noun
  • Because her motivations seem much more complicated than mere boredom in your adaptation.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Goldman Sachs last month had its busiest IPO week since July 2021, when pandemic boredom fueled a listings binge, not all of it healthy.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The film appears to be made by and for the kinds of people who might find themselves in a similar state of cozy ennui.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This is a show heavily interested in the way paranoia turns us all into weapons of mass destruction in our communities, especially when everyone’s looking to escape the ennui of their small-town blues.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ti West, who scored double horror hits last year with X and Pearl, commits almost too well to the sightseeing tedium of a typical vacation video.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • What rescues the film from tedium are the characterizations, which are well-drawn even under the briefest circumstances.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s administration was right to send an emissary after ICE’s Hyundai raid to express regret and negotiate a new business visa process for South Koreans, despite criticism from the more anti-immigrant MAGA base.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But just because regret or wanting your own life are taboo, does not make the sentiments any less real, or common.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Phoenix also likely reached to grab Khaman Maluach with the 10th pick in the draft, underscoring the Suns’ desperation to fix a center position that has troubled them for years.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Netanyahu behaves like a gambler who in his desperation doubles down again and again.
    Ehud Barak, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Strangers became friends and friends became family in a crowd that has felt anger, despair and hopelessness before finally feeling some happiness.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • And in a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 40% of American teens reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in 2023, up from 30% in 2013.
    Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Most powerful of all is Ritchie’s (Bill Hader / Finn Wolfhard) coming-out story, which leaves the viewer in despair.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • But people also described the despair of not being able to reach family or colleagues.
    Zahra Nader, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Morosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morosity. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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