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dour

English

  1. 🔊 harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
    “a dour, self-sacrificing life”
  2. 🔊 showing a brooding ill humor
    “a dark scowl”
  3. 🔊 stubbornly unyielding
    “dogged persistence”

Similar words

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