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Gloomily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a gloomy manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One influential but depressed activist said gloomily: "The problem is modern politicians have no convictions."
  • (2) Finally, intelligence services are more worried now than they were a year or so ago but much less concerned than they were back in the darkest days of 2003-06 when bombs were going off from Casablanca to Jakarta, hundreds were dying in Europe, Iraq was in total chaos, Afghanistan was deteriorating fast and senior spooks in London looked gloomily into their pints and spoke of "the wheels coming off".
  • (3) I also found a hugely-discouraging number of them talking gloomily about the difficulties they have breaking even on the app stores , because so many parents prefer to let their children play freemium games like Clash of Clans or Candy Crush Saga than pay for actual kids’ apps.
  • (4) But she also remarked gloomily that her Ma Larkin "may easily ruin us - the audience and critics may not accept that noisy woman in Shakespeare".
  • (5) Add in Below from Capy Games, Inside from Playdead and the haunting-looking Ori and the Bling Forest from Moon Studios, which was given a longer trailer and looked gloomily gorgeous and you have a decent line-up to face Sony's own inevitable onslaught.
  • (6) Alison Wolf , professor of public sector management at King's College London and the author of the recent Wolf Review of Vocational Education , describes the predictions of a million unemployed young people as "only too gloomily likely".
  • (7) Hoseah spoke gloomily about the prospects for Tanzania's anti-corruption struggle and his original hopes to prosecute the "big fish" of corruption.
  • (8) And amid the forecast showers in the Portuguese capital, the pair may gloomily reflect on how these bad times feel very similar to the previous ones.
  • (9) So all he can do is play the guitar, sing, take to drink and die young," Pariat concludes gloomily.
  • (10) Jill adds: And even more gloomily, Willem Buiter of Citigroup has declared that there is "no capital (banks) can hold" against a total break up of the eurozone.
  • (11) Thousands of Christian pilgrims and tourists jostle each day inside the gloomily lit spaces beneath the church's dome.
  • (12) 7.24am BST Every four years we get to use the word "permutations" a lot more than usual, starting now: If there is a positive result in the Croatia-Cameroon game, the loser is eliminated, thanks to Brazil and Mexico drawing If Australia or Spain lose, they need the other one to win to stand any chance of progressing Even a draw for Spain would leave them in a desperate position, almost certainly relying on a huge win in their final game against Australia and hoping to advance on goal difference As Vicente del Bosque rather gloomily put it : We have suffered a partial defeat and we hope it does not become a total defeat.
  • (13) Another middle-class professional woman reflected gloomily: "We sank very low.
  • (14) Given the show's propensity for grim and gloomily lit sets, Gråbøl had warned the duchess to wear flat shoes while visiting.
  • (15) Clark asks gloomily: "What commercial buyer would keep them on?"

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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