maussade

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Mais un homme comme, monsieur -- maussade, boudeur, impassible!

The Woman in Black 1915
As for the lady, “les charmes de cette maussade creature” merely evoked his scorn.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914
As for the lady, "les charmes de cette maussade creature" merely evoked his scorn.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903
But I began to respond to my poor boy's caresses and playfulness a little more; I was not so short and maussade with my women or with my good brother, and I tried to pray at mass.

Stray Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
The weather is maussade, French for wet, drippy and a bit depressing.

memoirs on a rainy day 2008
IDEM, 1992l: v "Avec onze marchés qui ont perdu duyerrain, selon Morgan Stanley Capital International, septembre maussade pourc la plupart des bourses", X.Z., 13 octobre, 8.

Refinance 2nd Mortgage 2008
As for _le fiancé, il était assez retenu, il avait pourtant l'air maussade, mais il se consolait avec du champagne -- il fera un très brave mari_. "

The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903