How to Use morose in a Sentence

morose

adjective

• He became morose and withdrawn and would not talk to anyone.
• Mark Wahlberg would kindly ask you to forget the morose slog that was Max Payne.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 27 Aug. 2015
• But No Shame is mostly more morose and less fun than that.
  — Philly.com, 21 June 2018
• But Jakob (Edward Dring), the boy whose morose and wealthy father has just hired her, isn’t ill.
  — Michael O’Sullivan, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• In the first couple of episodes of the new show, Pike is morose and obsessing about his future.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022
• The score by Zachary Seman and Robert Miller leans too often toward the slow and morose for the good of the film’s forward movement.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2017
• What’s different this time is that the songs’ tone is not nearly as morose.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2017
• Businessfolk, morose of late as GDP growth has slowed, snapped out of their malaise.
  — The Economist, 27 Sep. 2019
• Despite the cemetery's name, many of the graves' poems are downright morose.
  — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
• The mega-fame of Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen, and so many other morose stars would seem to say otherwise.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2019
• His story, which is loosely based on the death of his own mother, is not morose or overwrought.
  — Emily Zemler, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2016
• But the mug shot of an unshaven, tired and morose looking Woods won’t play well in any marketing campaign.
  — Jeff Schultz, ajc, 29 May 2017
• In a slightly morose way, the Justice for Barb shrine feels like a fitting tribute to one of 2016's most beloved characters.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 July 2017
• But before the game, in the old Oakland Coliseum, Favre seemed morose.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• While Ethel is vivacious and full of life, Norman has become morose and seems to have given up on life.
  — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 25 Oct. 2017
• The story is not a morose one, but rather a celebration of the charisma that made audiences fall in love with Fox throughout the 1980s.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• But if that’s too morose, imagine a lifetime achievement award.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The sound of the Weeknd’s smash is not as morose as its accidentally timely themes might suggest.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2020
• There’s a dismissive sourness here, though, too morose for satire.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• When their campouts ended, they were either thrilled or morose, with no middle ground.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
• The subtext of spousal abuse, coupled with a tragic fate that befalls one of the store’s workers, lends the film, by Thomas Stuber, a melancholy tone bordering on the morose.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019
• This is a morose serial-killer thriller, visually muted like a TV movie.
  — Gem Seddon, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
• Even as tech optimism is obvious, sentiment in much of the rest of the market remains morose.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2020
• The rest fall into the same category of morose rock anthems that Linkin Park has been dutifully putting out for years.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
• Sounds morose but guess what: life is a terminal condition.
  — AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2017
• Explaining things to my sons that morning had not been easy, and my own morose face was mirrored by those of my fellow New Yorkers on the subway ride into work.
  — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
• Billie poured herself into the emotions of every syllable, doing her best to let the morose piano track swell and fill the arena.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2020
• Explaining things to my sons that morning had not been easy, and my own morose face was mirrored by those of my fellow New Yorkers on the subway ride into work.
  — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
• Although his lyrics are heavy with meaning, Declan McKenna is far from being morose.
  — Crissy Milazzo, Teen Vogue, 9 Sep. 2016
• The Answers follows Mary Parsons, a peculiar, morose, blank slate of a girl from Tennessee.
  — Nina Renata Aron, New Republic, 15 June 2017

Last Updated: 9 May 2024