All 4 Uses of
morose
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Originally strong, her voice was crippled by weeping and asthma, and the whites of her eyes coppery from the same causes, a burning, morose face, piteous, and her spirit untamed by thoughts or the remote considerations that can reconcile people to awfuler luck than she had.†
Chpt 2morose = unhappy
- People have been adoptive toward me, as if I were really an orphan, but she had never been like that, but only morose with her riches, and mad at her mystifying, dapper husband, and critical of the Einhorns.†
Chpt 6 *
- This change from great laughter to savagery made Happy ready to quit, his big, skillful, poachy eyes morose, warning, filling up, as I tried to iron things out.†
Chpt 11
- I said to him, and Cousin Anna with her burning morose face muttered something to him.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
unhappy -- often with a withdrawn personality