What's the difference between crossly and morosely?

Crossly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here they look at you very crossly if you do that,” says Kinan, 21.
  • (2) In all cases segmental resections with a rim of crossly normal tissue around the primary of at least 2 cm were simulated.
  • (3) A lot of people on the internet swear they aren't going to buy one either - at the end of every single iPad article going, in fact, often quite crossly (as in "WTF!
  • (4) OK, well, first of all, Owen’s a very ambitious man,” adding with a dry chuckle, “He’s very evidently taken the opportunity that’s been presented.” That said, he would “absolutely not” call Owen “Blairite-lite”, and says crossly, “I think it’s a stupid phrase to use.
  • (5) The remuneration committee chair fought back crossly: they have to pay these sums because everyone else does, but "only the most discerning will appreciate this".
  • (6) She was one of several to retweet a twitterer's jibe at the highest profile loser: "I suppose we will never know how many people have just dropped their unfinished Hollinghurst novels crossly on the floor."
  • (7) "You'll have to wait until the next book," responds Martin, crossly.
  • (8) They accosted a steward almost crossly, demanding: "Is this free ?"
  • (9) He’s not a leader, is he?” said the man crossly, after being interrupted while doing DIY.
  • (10) Protein bands of 7 kDa in HF and 15, 10 and 7 kDa in CF did not react crossly and were specific components in respective antigens.
  • (11) "It is not the way I would have chosen to spend my Sunday evening," he said crossly, referring to the weekend leak on Guido Fawkes' website of Alastair Campbell's witness statement, three days before he was due to deliver it in person.
  • (12) He was the greatest cross-examiner of such experts ("the art of cross-examination is not to examine crossly") and many alleged murderers owed their liberty to his ability to draw out a doubt in the apparently closed mind.
  • (13) The tourist information is closed, as is the police station, so we make enquiries at the chemist’s next door, where a “fully medically trained” pharmacist is disappointed that neither of us require her to diagnose a fatal rash, and directs us rather crossly to the path to San Fruttuoso.
  • (14) Pausing rather crossly on her front path, she said: "One can get more excited", and went on to observe that since she had already won all the other prizes in Europe, this was "a royal flush".
  • (15) All the big subjects were hit upon but Bush would wiggle crossly away, still wearing his criticism-repelling cloak of self-righteousness.

Morosely


Definition:

  • (adv.) Sourly; with sullen austerity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You want to explore the darker things in life – death is a part of life, sadness is a part of life - but we don’t ever want to be morose.” Later on, Phil comes back downstairs.
  • (2) I managed to view an entire seminar free of charge (though there was no sound and there was nothing useful to be gained other than looking at the morose faces of students awake before midday).
  • (3) His calm, clear and collaborative manner helped lift the spirit of a team who had become rather morose under his disciplinarian predecessor, Claude Puel , and he fostered a vibrant attacking style while remaining versatile enough to use a variety of formations.
  • (4) However, Rifkind’s own recent privacy issues had made that tricky; empty-chairing himself might have set an awkward precedent that the prime minister would not have appreciated, so he settled for looking grumpy and morose while Hazel Blears ran the show.
  • (5) And then GTA V is also a monstrous parody of modern life – our bubbling cesspit of celebrity fixation, political apathy and morose self-obsession.
  • (6) It is more than ‘morose’ it is a catastrophic economic situation.
  • (7) Photograph: Alamy Size: 0.03sq miles Threave Island introduced to the historical stage a character so morosely inimical there could be only one possible name for him: Archibald the Grim.
  • (8) Even when a newspaper falsely claimed that Motlanthe was having an affair with a 24-year-old, not once was he "morose, dejected, looking troubled", but instead showed "amazing fortitude".
  • (9) The early-observed improvement concerned inhibition, lack of energy, moroseness, favouring the patients' integration in the institutional context.
  • (10) Immediately following each unpleasant new announcement, Cleggsy Bear shuffles on stage to defend it, working his sad eyes and boyish face as he morosely explains why the decision was inevitable – and not just inevitable, but fair; in fact possibly the fairest, most reasonable decision to have been taken in our lifetimes, no matter how loudly people scream to the contrary.
  • (11) Anand Gopal, author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes, referred to their morose disposition on Twitter.
  • (12) The group is tough but I think that when I get over this initial moroseness, I think that I will be absolutely fine.” He said that given the strength of their opponents his side, who came through an equally tough qualifying group, could not afford to try and plot a way through and would simply have to go all-out in every game.
  • (13) Local papers, watching the pennies and morosely certain that pounds don't look after themselves, have very little that binds them to the Sun or the Mirror .
  • (14) The existence of depression in young individuals has often been denied or at least underestimated particularly during adolescence, to the benefit of such other concepts as morosity, inherent in this period of life, and from which depression should be differentiated.
  • (15) He's sounding morose but suddenly someone walks past and Stanhope kicks into life: "Hey man!
  • (16) An analysis of the individual LOI items between the two groups showed that the ulcerative colitis patients were more indecisive, and also more morose, more rigid and more punctual than the duodenal ulcer patients, i.e.
  • (17) "Get yourself into a good morose state," he advises.
  • (18) O’Neill said he was “morose” after landing Italy, Sweden and Belgium in Saturday night’s draw but his side would take inspiration from the approach showed by some sides at the Brazil World Cup in targeting victory in their opening group match, at the Stade de France in Paris on 13 June.
  • (19) But amid talk of a global race in which developing nations are surging forward while Europe gazes morosely at its navel, our insecure politicians are proposing isolationist policies that have an impact on national prosperity and indicate hostility to the rest of the planet.
  • (20) There’s not a morose feeling in my school because it’s a bloody good school and people want to stay.

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