schoolmarmish

adjective

Definition of schoolmarmishnext
as in dour

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  1. dour
  2. anal
  3. indignant
  4. angry
  5. morose
  6. uptight
  7. exasperated
  8. sullen
Adjective
  • Entering Sunday the Sox had won 17 of their last 19 games, including a season-high 12 straight, and had completely turned their season around after a dour first three months.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 19 July 2026
  • The dour Dostoyevsky probably didn’t mean this as a compliment to human nature; the line appears in a book, The House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of dour
Adjective
  • Over an 18-month period, fishers at two major fish markets in Puerto Rico submitted nearly 400 shark anal fins as part of a collaborative monitoring program.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The model and actress was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006 and was declared cancer-free on her 60th birthday in 2007, per the Farrah Fawcett Foundation.
    — Alyssa Modos, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
Definition of anal
Adjective
  • The book-club members roundly disliked it, indignant that the character was being driven mad by perimenopause, as if hormone-replacement therapy didn’t exist.
    — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Judge Timothy Mazzei asked him Wednesday in a loud, indignant voice.
    — Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Definition of indignant
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  • The state Department of Transportation is scheduled to install temporary three-way stop signs at the intersections during a road project that’s already created mind-numbing traffic snarls and angry and confused drivers.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
  • That same source insisted to People that Jolie is no longer angry at her 62-year-old ex-husband.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
Definition of angry
Adjective
  • The first leg will be the ever-popular third-place playoff, in which a couple of morose losers compete for no trophy at all and a chance to show off the superior sourness of their grapes.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • Life without either, the pair determine, has left Leonora morose, maladjusted and desperate to claw her way back to the road not taken.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
Definition of morose
Adjective
  • Could anyone else be as uptight as Alan Ruck’s Cameron in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
  • Will such scrutiny, in the end, make players uptight or liberate them?
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
Definition of uptight
Adjective
  • Jack Loder, a clearly exasperated digital content producer for the Giants’ flagship station KNBR, posted a two-minute video on X shortly after the game that singled out Webb for criticism.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • For a variety of reasons that weren’t immediately entirely clear, there was a comprehensive and fundamental breakdown in access to the stadium that left many exasperated or furious.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026
Definition of exasperated
Adjective
  • The pilot is charming and funny, immediately drawing me into the dynamic of its two characters — Romy is a bit more gregarious and sarcastic, Bobby more sensitive and sullen.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
  • Some Redditors have reported the same problem in sullen language.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Definition of sullen
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