0 the quality of being unhappy, annoyed, and unwilling to speak or smile: --
He alternated between aggression and moroseness.
He has a natural moroseness to his expression.
Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
The general expression of the countenance is melancholy, and exhibits a strange combination of moroseness and gentleness.
Then they were decorous and solemn to the verge of moroseness.
Good cheer was much more natural to her than moroseness.
Her cheerfulness gave way to sadness and moroseness.
On several occasions he had noticed signs of a preoccupation, of suppressed excitement, of silence and moroseness.
There were moments when his moroseness became threatening.
That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness of his nature.
