6 example sentences using dour.
Dour used in a sentence
Dour in a sentence as an adjective
So what you're saying is that all German lit experts are dour and depressing?
Are designers required to post a dour image of themselves?
It's especially dour when people celebrate getting nuclear plants shut down or blocked, and you know the unspoken result will be more coal plants.
Perhaps your Facebook interactions are all dour and joyless because the people you interact with are dour and joyless online?
However, its somewhat ironic to be lectured in job happiness by a blogger who's pic is undoubtedly the most dour, unsmiling I've ever seen.
The Name of the Rose is a movie about the crusade to eliminate humour and leave us with dour religiousness, and the inhumanity that ensues.
Dour definitions
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"
See also: dogged persistent pertinacious tenacious unyielding
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
See also: forbidding grim
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"
See also: dark glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen