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dour
adjective
Showing a brooding ill humor
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ˈdʊə
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adjective
Showing a brooding ill humor
“A dark scowl”
adjective
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
“A dour, self-sacrificing life”
adjective
Stubbornly unyielding
“Dogged persistence”
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A dark scowl
The proverbially dour New England Puritan
A glum, hopeless shrug
He sat in moody silence
A morose and unsociable manner
A dour, self-sacrificing life
A forbidding scowl
A grim man loving duty more than humanity
{'source': 'J.M.Barrie', 'text': 'undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw'}
Dogged persistence
Dour determination
The most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
{'source': 'T.S.Eliot', 'text': 'a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it'}
Men tenacious of opinion
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