dour

Speech parts

1. dour - Adjective

2. dour - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.

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Examples

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness. A. Scott Berg

The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves. Jo Durie

I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T. V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig? Jim Morrison

The servicemen of the 1939 - 45 war could not be disillusioned because they held not illusions to start with, the most common mood found everywhere was one of dour resolution, skeptical, resigned. Vernon Scannell

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship. Barbara Ehrenreich

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. Zaha Hadid

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