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Adjective
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The retailer issued a dour fourth-quarter report marked by a 74 percent drop in net income, which fell to $48 million from $186 million in the year-ago period.—
David Moin,
WWD,
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During the anthem, the image of Trump appeared on giant screens at both ends of the stadium, with his daughter and his grandson and his dour salute.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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All anal toys should have a flared base as a safety precaution.—
Amanda Chatel,
Glamour,
25 Feb. 2025
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Lorain police obtained two warrants to force doctors to search a suspect’s anal cavity.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Tendrils of hypocrisy appear in 2025 over baseball’s continuing ban of Rose as sports leagues including MLB climb into bed with betting sportsbooks and reap millions from them, while simultaneously acting all aghast and indignant that a player of theirs might dip a toe in gambling.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2025
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The album’s a masterpiece of circulatory funk that works your body but whose indignant resignation and few hopeful embers also break your heart.—
Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Consumers are angry about high prices, but few realize just how little profit many of the small and medium-sized food industry producers and independent restaurants who make and sell them their meals actually make.—
Rovshan Rasulov,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead an angry mob to change the course of history.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
11 Mar. 2025
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In this family road-trip pic set during the 2008 financial crisis, one disturbing sequence after another is played out on the morose face of John Magaro, who is clearly keeping the truth from them — and us — of what this journey is actually all about.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
2 Feb. 2025
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The always astonishing Ben Whishaw plays the sweet, morose, gay, chain-smoking, furtively sincere, faraway-eyed Hujar, a veteran freelance photographer who was just coming into his own as a gallery artist and downtown scenester.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Everything feels so uptight these days and few people seem to be amusing themselves.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
3 Mar. 2025
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Maybe being a micromanager and a little uptight weren’t such horrible things after all.—
Mark Barabak,
The Mercury News,
1 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Madison, whose full name is Mikaela Madison Rosberg, first rose to fame for the role of a sullen teenager in the FX comedy Better Things.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
3 Mar. 2025
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Then Chloe pointed out her boyfriend across the room ... revealing none other than a sullen Greg eating at their table, alone.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Lauren handles the allegations as well as can be expected of someone in her position: with increasingly desperate and tearful pleas to Dave to see reason, culminating in exasperated defeat.—
Anusha Praturu,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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The stiff, exasperated rule-followers voters love to see lose.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Schoolmarmish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmarmish. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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