What's the difference between doleful and morose?

Doleful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has said the remote scheme will require people to work five days a week, 12 months a year to get the dole, compared with the six months the government will require of benefit recipients in urban and regional areas.
  • (2) Job seekers will learn the behaviours expected of workers, for example by there being immediate consequences for passive welfare behaviour.” It says the continuous work for the dole for all 18- to 49-year-olds, is being introduced only in remote Australia, because in those areas there are “limited or no real labour markets, as well as unique social problems that stem from passive welfare.
  • (3) The core hypothesis deduced from the Dole-Nyswander blockade formulation is that methadone is a sufficient but not necessary condition for abstinence from heroin.
  • (4) Labor doled out some money for trades training centres in high schools and Abbott had money for netball courts in Caboolture.
  • (5) Even my mum has tales to tell of her time on the dole, and of welfare inspectors busting in at 7am to check that none of the members of her sharehouse were sleeping in the same bed, and thus fibbing about their relationship status on their claim forms.
  • (6) He announced the news in a series of doleful tweets, first asking Wiggins if he fancied a city break and then posting a picture of his Tour bike, claiming it was for sale.
  • (7) They are also, in practice, in support of arguments that claimants are on the fiddle with a net 17% more believing "most people on the dole are fiddling one way or another".
  • (8) Igor Sechin, the chairman of blacklisted, Kremlin-owned oil group Rosneft, has asked the government to dole out 1.5 trillion roubles (£25bn) to help the state-owned oil giant company refinance its debts.
  • (9) The Labour proposal is intended to be compulsory for the young unemployed after they have had a year on the dole, whereas work experience was voluntary for a week, and mandatory thereafter.
  • (10) The over-hyped and widely trailed Question Time has been an exercise in what it was always going to be: a public outpouring of anti fascist sentiments and establishing anti racist credentials, with the BNP positioning itself as the champion of white working class interests.The BBC can pat itself on the back for its high viewing ratings when the count is done; the panellists can go back to what they were doing and the struggle for equality, fairness and justice will intensify, not on television, but on the streets, the estates, in the playgrounds, the workplace and the dole queues.
  • (11) In that case, requiring people to work for the dole and apply for 40 jobs a month is merely a pathway to demoralisation.
  • (12) The reformed RJCP will give job seekers the opportunity to be continuously engaged in work for the dole activities, five days a week, all year round – just like a real job.
  • (13) Some of the proposals would have had their own senate inquiries in the past,” he said, referring to planned changes such as stripping under-30s of dole for six months at a time, reviewing people who are on the disability support pension (DSP) and changes to the family tax benefit which are included in amendment bills 1 and 2 being examined by the senate.
  • (14) June Brown, the favourite to become the first soap actress to win the best actress Bafta for her role as EastEnders' doleful launderette attendant Dot Branning, lost to Anna Maxwell Martin, who won her second Bafta in a row after last year's surprise win for Bleak House.
  • (15) This was an educator singing in a doleful prison cell; Seldon, the Birdman of Berkshire. "
  • (16) He was married with children, he'd been sacked from his job as a hosiery mechanic and like all sacked people, he was refused dole.
  • (17) Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary There is widespread revulsion that the government is deliberately adding to the dole queues at a time when the economy has not recovered from the "bankers recession".
  • (18) But Freeman doled out advice along with the punches.
  • (19) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
  • (20) And I look forward to him being a good president.” The video sought to remind the public of just how big an advocate Bush once was before he took to doling out what Rubio’s campaign dubbed as “phony attacks”.

Morose


Definition:

  • (a.) Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
  • (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.

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.