dour
People in the village knew him by his dourness, by the distance he put between himself and them.
There is very little humour to leaven his dourness.
We end up a million miles from bedsit dourness.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Not being friendly
abrasive
abrasively
abrasiveness
abruptly
abruptness
aloof
estrangement from someone
flintily
forbidding
forbiddingly
freezingly
frigid
gruff
offish
remote
remoteness
reserved
reservedly
saturnine
wintry
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