morose

If you don't do that, you end up in a place that is morose and in some strange way, addicted to cortisol.

As sad as the permanently morose seem, they do not even ridicule those who laugh, but those who find joy in their lives.

"On comes Holland, a camera following him from backstage. He’s tearful, morose, muttering. He’s a very sad boy in a tight white vest," Bano wrote.

And on a structural level, the storytelling of “IF” itself is a mess: a heartfelt but dramatically inert endeavor that whipsaws between tones ranging from whimsical to morose.

Which is an apropos descriptor for the Mariners’ morose matinee, an 11-1 loss to the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on Thursday.