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dour ; stern, harsh, gloomy.
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Examples
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Cat, originally of House Tully, was supposed to marry his elder brother Brandon, but when Brandon was murdered by the Mad King Aerys, she wed his younger, dourer brother instead to secure the alliance between their houses.
Jennifer Ehle confirmed for A GAME OF THRONES Adam Whitehead 2009
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McCain is associated with the painful humiliation of Viet Nam, and apart from all the other historical reasons, his greatest hurdle in winning this election is a perspective far dourer than his opponent's platform of hope; even McCain's wry sense of irony, his central uplifting personality plank, is born of a cynical world-weariness.
Teddy Wayne: The Art of Losing: Americans' Fixation on Winning Personalities 2008
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Gordon Brown is much sterner, dourer, sort of a Scottish priest, coming from that Presbyterian tradition.
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I have not tried the evening fishing, but at all other times of day have found them the "dourest" of trout, and they grow dourer.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
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The firm has a "little more dourer outlook" than the Federal Reserve when it comes to growth, Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund, said in a radio interview on "Bloomberg Surveillance" with Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt.
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Sae he cam hame ten times dourer than ever, and broke aff wi 'mony o' the
Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801
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Sae he cam hame ten times dourer than ever, and broke aff wi 'mony o' the
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Taurus: This is not the greatest of days simply because the influence put pressure on you and can make things seems dourer than they really are.
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Taurus: This is not the greatest of days simply because the influence put pressure on you and can make things seems dourer than they really are.
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Taurus: This is not the greatest of days simply because the influence put pressure on you and can make things seems dourer than they really are.
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