0 the quality of being unfriendly, unhappy, and very serious, especially in appearance or manner:
Her dourness is broken by an impish smile.
He displays neither dourness nor anger, but instead a generosity of spirit coupled with a nimble, questing mind.
People in the village knew him by his dourness, by the distance he put between himself and them.
There is very little humour to leaven his dourness.
We end up a million miles from bedsit dourness.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
dourness
