schoolmarmish

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Adjective
  • Snyder's dour depiction of Superman sparked mixed reactions among critics and fans, and subsequent DC movies generally struggled to compete with Marvel at the box office.
    Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Target lost more than a fifth of its value after the retailer gave a dour forecast for the holiday shopping season.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • When rectal prolapse is more severe, the rectum may not move back into the anal canal.4 This condition is more common in people over 50 years of age, especially women.
    Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2025
  • So James, sans anal fistula, goes home and surprises everyone, including Helen, in her Helenish sweater and blazer.
    Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Gabriela Cowperthwaite Twitter aside, there’s no better way to get indignant in a short amount of time than by watching Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary look into the world of captive killer whales.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • If Wired of the 2010s was the cheerful herald of a shiny, happy future (not a judgment!), this piece is its indignant child, pointing accusingly at the mess.
    Longreads, Longreads, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Trump refused to accept Biden's victory in the 2020 election and his animosity toward Biden culminated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, during which mobs of angry Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after Trump urged them to stop Congress from certifying Biden's electoral victory.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The return of Donald Trump is readily evident today with reporters once again waking up to an angry presidential social media post, this time over a moment that went viral.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But none of it would have landed had Gad, Lee, and the rest of the Frozen 2 creative team stuck with the morose original cut.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2025
  • And, unrehearsed, Rogers sang the morose song of past love and played the piano, a real treat for fans who've been following her for the past decade.
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Dreux and Alyssa have what looks like a familiar dynamic: Dreux the uptight one in search of control, Alyssa the loosey-goosey one urging her friend to worry less.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Coin Heist, adapted from Elisa Ludwig’s YA novel, follows in the footsteps of The Breakfast Club by uniting high schoolers who otherwise wouldn’t give each other the time of day: a hacker, the headmaster’s slacker son, a football phenom on a scholarship, and an uptight brainiac.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The New Daughter has an interesting, sullen mood and looks fantastic, but that just further accentuates how out of place Costner seems.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 1 July 2024
  • One of the migrants looks at the camera with sullen eyes and a rugged beard.
    Kunal Sehgal, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The exasperated experts, right here, begin to fire off e-mails and D.M.s, tutting at the eminent philosopher’s obvious failures of sleep hygiene.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In an August TikTok post, an exasperated Roan expounded on her increasingly uncomfortable fan encounters.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
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“Schoolmarmish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmarmish. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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