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English to English adjective
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Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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stubbornly unyielding | | Example: 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
men tenacious of opinion
source: wordnet30
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harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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showing a brooding ill humor | | Example: 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
a sour temper
a sullen crowd
source: wordnet30
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