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morosely

[ UK /məɹˈə‍ʊsli/ ]
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  1. in a morose manner
    he fell morosely on the bed

How To Use morosely In A Sentence

  • In September, the unemployment rate for people between the ages of 16 and 24 hovered morosely at 18.1 percent, nearly double the national average for that month. Balancing the recession on the backs of the young « Dating Jesus
  • Now he was silently, morosely drunk and, as the evenings progressed , soddenly drunk.
  • Most of them are sipping coffee, or reading newspapers, or chewing morosely on tough bread.
  • Maybe “morosely” or “gloomily” would fit in better. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
  • This time though, his team were not the slugabeds who had toiled so morosely against Austria, Poland and England in Manchester.
  • The reassuring factor in all this is Ottway, who was the company's hired killer: Before the crash, he had spent his days shooting predators around the perimeter of the refinery, and morosely obsessing about the woman he lost. 'Man on a Ledge' Does a Balancing Act
  • Your Diogenes was a blockhead," said Ivan Dmitritch morosely. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
  • She wrapped the blankets more tightly around herself, staring morosely out the open, shutterless window of the hayloft where she slept.
  • ‘No, we can't,’ Zoë sighed, gazing morosely into the water.
  • I said morosely and mumbling to myself more than her… ‘I'm going to be 40 this year’.
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