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- Definition
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- dour :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|men tenacious of opinion
- 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
- dour :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|a sour temper|a sullen crowd