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  • 31surly — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, aggressive, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, beastly, beetle browed, bilious, black, black browed, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brusque, cantankerous, cavalier, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross …

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  • 32dejection — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sadness Nouns 1. dejection, dejectedness, depression; lowness or depression of spirits; weight or damp on the spirits; low, bad, drooping, or depressed spirits; sinking heart, heaviness of heart;… …

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  • 33morose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sulky, sullen, gloomy, crabbed, glum, dour. See dejection, irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Gloomy] Syn. depressed, dolorous, melancholy; see sad 1 , troubled 1 . 2. [Ill humored] Syn.… …

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  • 34sulky — a. Cross, morose, sour, sullen, spleeny, spleenish, splenetic, perverse, wayward, surly, moody, dogged, churlish, mumpish, cross grained, ill tempered, ill humored, in the sulks, out of humor, out of temper, out of tune …

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  • 35mopish — adj dejected, despondent, depressed, melancholy, atrabilious; sullen, glum, blue, sulky, dark, beetle browed; funky, mopey, low, down, sad, dispirited, out of sorts; spiritless, lackadaisical, listless, sluggish, heavy; doleful, moody, grim,… …

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  • 36sullen — adj 1. cross, angry, peeved, miffed, in a bad or ugly mood, out of humor, Inf. sore, Inf. mad, Sl. hot, Sl. ticked off, Sl. teed off; scowling, frowning, glowering, beetle browed, black browed. 2. sulky, morose, mumpish, glum; resentful, bitter,… …

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  • 37mump —   v.i. sulk; be silent; beg.    ♦ mumper, n.    ♦ mumpish, a …

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  • 38mumps — n.pl. 1 (treated as sing.) a contagious and infectious viral disease with swelling of the parotid salivary glands in the face. 2 a fit of sulks. Derivatives: mumpish adj. (in sense 2). Etymology: archaic mump be sullen …

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