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ADJECTIVE 3

  1. stubbornly unyielding

    • “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”
  2. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

    • “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”
  3. showing a brooding ill humor

    • “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”
    • “a sullen crowd”

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