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dour: 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

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glowering collapse

saturnine collapse: bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde

straightlaced collapse

procrustean collapse: of or relating to the mythical giant Procrustes or the mode of torture practiced by him

grum collapse

moping collapse

beetle browed collapse

lugubrious collapse: excessively mournful

ill-natured collapse: having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

muscle bound collapse

crabby collapse

glum collapse: reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"

inelastic collapse: not elastic; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure"

frowning collapse: showing displeasure or anger

hard core collapse: the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement

ironclad collapse: a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor; inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"; sheathed in iron plates for protection

implacable collapse: incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy"

rockbound collapse

mopey collapse

stringent collapse

ungiving collapse

uncompromising collapse: not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"

cantankerous collapse: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

morose collapse

fundamentalist collapse: a supporter of fundamentalism; of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism

unsparing collapse: not forbearing; ruthless; "an unsparing critic"

taciturn collapse: habitually reserved and uncommunicative

dejected collapse: affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

adamant collapse: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"

intransigent collapse

ironbound collapse

surly collapse: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

unalterable collapse: of a sentence; that cannot be changed; "an unalterable death sentence"; not capable of being changed or altered; "unalterable resolve"; "an unalterable ground rule"

churlish collapse: having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare; rude and boorish

gruff collapse: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

puritan collapse: someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures; a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship

puristic collapse

astringent collapse: a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals; tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue; "astringent cosmetic lotions"

exigent collapse: requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"

puritanical collapse: of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism

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