dour

He was very different from the dour young man who'd set off all those years ago.

The tall man saw him first, and next the dour woman.

He was a dour guy, you know, not really that close to anybody.

For now, a dour part of his mind answered him.

His dour mouth turned up a little, half of a smile.

The poor guy was not prepared for such dour news at eight in the morning.

Only the aged, dour President had seemed to stand in his way.

Actually, it is a fairly dour work much of the time.

They seemed less dour, more animated, than others of their kind.

She started toward where they had last seen her big, dour servant.

He was a long thin man with a dour expression.

Even the most dour members of the community got caught up in the celebration.

"When you first met her, she seemed to be a little dour.

For a second there was a smile on her normally dour face.

A dour one, to be sure, but it was there nevertheless.

After a moment the four stood back, watching in dour amusement.

He had been replaced by a much more dour captain.

Not every result of the Chicago cheating analysis was so dour.

He had never seen his master in such a dour mood.

He took only five questions, spoke in low, dour tones and left after three minutes.

The old man waited for him with a dour expression on his face.

Then he recognized the dour face of the shorter man.

Some of them were dour and no fun to ride with; but in five years he had learned policy.

The two men looked down at me without changing their dour expressions.

But some political analysts take a more dour view of such intimacy.