What is "morosely"

Usage examples of "morosely".

Something I thought of as I morosely drove to the Indizalian Embassy to meet with Ambassador Hobar Aramilo was that, again, I was involved in extraneous and pointless pursuit: my job.

Pemberton switched off the circuit, then stared at the board, whistling morosely.

BEDROOM-SITTING ROOM - NIGHT Towny is stretched out on the couch, staring morosely.

She asked it as she morosely poured herself a glass of Chenin Blanc and settled down in her rainbow-hued chair to consider her life.

AM2 was what would prevent, Ecu finished morosely, finding any real solution to this problem.

Doctor Fearnaught, too, remained silent, but morosely so, lugubriously so, despondently so.

The face of De Ganache seemed ever to be between me and Diane, and I morosely kept to myself, envying the lot of Adam, who was the only man who never had a rival, torturing myself, as is the custom with lovers, with a thousand suspicions, and cursing myself for a fool in having undertaken this task.

Involuntarily feeling this at dinner on the first day, he was taciturn, and the old prince noticing this also became morosely dumb and retired to his apartments directly after dinner.

Rocking slowly in his big leather desk chair, Norman Singletary studied the young man who was staring morosely out the window at blue sky and clouds from forty-six stories up.

Tying the two bridles to the saddlehorn, Longarm hefted the heavy roper to one hip and morosely regarded the dead ponies by the light of a silver moon.

They went so t that in a minute they were too far out of town for Jeff to consider hopping off to see Oba. He settled back morosely.

Colun set his elbows on the parapet and rested his chin on his hands, staring morosely at the cavern, at the serried ranks of houses that climbed the walls like honeycombs to where the topmost curvature of the vast cave swung over like some rocky sky to meet the rising houses on the farther side, the roadways between climbing up the walls and dangling in the moss-lit air between like spiderweb ladders.

He had spent most of the day sitting morosely in a whirlpool tub of Homeric proportions, got out in late afternoon for a meal of filet of sole almandine, and finally dressed himself in the style of a Tombstone gambler, complete with black sombrero and silver spurs.

Fenner thought morosely, Ballard will be one step farther into the net that Fernand Lenoir has spread for him.

Malachi Braithwaite stood apart from the happy passengers, staring morosely at Sharpe on the quarterdeck.