DOUR — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
dour
Showing a brooding ill humor.
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- A dark scowl.
- The proverbially dour New England Puritan.
- A glum, hopeless shrug.
- He sat in moody silence.
- A morose and unsociable manner.
- A saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven.
- A sour temper.
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance.
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- A dour, self-sacrificing life.
- A forbidding scowl.
- A grim man loving duty more than humanity.
- Undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie.
Stubbornly unyielding.
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- Dogged persistence.
- Dour determination.
- The most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics.
- A mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot.
- Men tenacious of opinion.
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