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Adjective
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The beloved community festival had drawn to a dour conclusion, after reports of fights and other mayhem.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026 -
Trauma has left him dour and self-contained, as inaccessible to others as his childhood is to him.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Various speculations about the cheating accusations began to spread, including one that involved Niemann using vibrating anal beads to signal the best moves.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
7 June 2026
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The species can be distinguished from channels and blues by the number of rays in the anal fin.—
Ken Perrotte,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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Alana Haim’s character, suddenly indignant, reaches for a tenuous personal connection to justify her outrage.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
3 Apr. 2026
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Clemens also was caught stealing second in the fifth after a walk, again suffering an indignant face plant on his slide into second.—
David Brown,
Twin Cities,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The church has received backlash and angry phone calls since the display went up, Shipley said.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Dec. 2025
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Butler became angry, came up behind her, put his arm around her neck, and strangled to unconsciousness.—
Deborah Kim,
ABC News,
10 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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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
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In a morose Season 2, the group, now shrunken to a fivesome, with Ginny and her baby sometimes in tow, grapples with life after Nick and what their respective next chapters might bring.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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So says Leslie Fremar, outing herself as the real-life inspiration for Emily, the uptight first assistant to fictional magazine editor Miranda Priestly.—
Assistant Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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The uptight, very serious good boy-captain.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Such a reader would be even more exasperated by The End of Everything, which turns the dial up several notches.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Republican voters, the bulwark of the president’s political power, appear similarly exasperated.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Sad, sullen younger half-brother Zach (Joe Anders), unrecovered from a social media misstep, is acting more strangely than teenage boys usually do.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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The London producer has always taken an unusually subdued approach to club music, but her latest album—a sullen fusion of pop structures and glitchy IDM—is her most fiercely introspective yet.—
Matthew Blackwell,
Pitchfork,
13 May 2026
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“Schoolmarmish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmarmish. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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