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morose

adj.
US //mɝˈoʊs// UK //məɹˈəʊs// mo·rose
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Origin

From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.

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