dour

• (s) 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
  dogged, pertinacious, unyielding, tenacious, persistent,
• (s) 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
  forbidding, grim,
• (s) 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
  glowering, moody, morose, sullen, glum, saturnine, dark, sour,

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