Dour is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DOUR in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• determined, sullen
• relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance
• sullen and unfriendly
• Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
• stubbornly unyielding
• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
• showing a brooding ill humor

Words related to DOUR

dourer7 dourest8 dourly10 dourness9

Words that contain DOUR

doura6 odour6 ardour7 dourah10 douras7 dourer7 dourly10 odours7 ardours8 candour10 dourahs11 dourest8 dourine8 odoured9 pandour10 candours11 dourines9 dourness9 malodour11 odourful12 pandours11 malodours12 odourless10 pompadour16 splendour12 uncandour12 dournesses11 pompadours17 splendours13 troubadour13 uncandours13 douroucouli14 pompadoured19 troubadours14 douroucoulis15

How to use DOUR in a sentence

• The ships were the least of the business, for the dour Scots seamen were a match for all comers.
• But at the time I was feeling pretty youthful, too, though my dour face and hard voice were a bad clue to my sentiments.
• Bianca, on the other hand, laid herself out to propitiate the dour Austrian princess and to stifle slander.
• I shall never forget the look of dour forgiveness with which he heard our excuses for missing Morning Prayers that Sunday morning of our single visit to The Towers.
• Also the Intendant came, a grey-haired, dour, kind-faced man.
• She had followed the line of least resistance, lacked the dour courage to pull herself up in the beginning, and it led to this.
• There was nothing behind them but a dour waste, a bog through which they had driven themselves with a lash of resolution.
• He deprecated the strain which she was imposing upon her nervous system, already overwrought to the danger point, but he was helpless for all his dour obstinacy.
• And because he could read a kindred resentment in the gloomy eye of Doctor McMurdoch, he was drawn spiritually closer to that dour character.
• But, as it happened, the dour Grip was far more than usually serious that morning.
• The dour old fellow at length consents, and, fearing for his pot, takes it from the house and hides it in one place after another.
• He was a dour Scotchman and I suppose he hated me, although he kept it to himself.
• It was the first time we had been two nights in the same place since Dour.
• I had last been in Belgium on August 23, the day we left Dour.
• He tasted but few amusements without the limits of his craft, and he preserved unto the end a touch of that dour character which is the heritage of his race.
• The people, indeed, are the same dour Presbyterians, though the one writes of Scotland and the other of the North of Ireland.
• They were too busy to develop that dour affliction of the spirit which loneliness and idleness breed through the long winters of the North.
• Now that a reprieve was seemingly impossible, he faced his misfortunes with a dour courage.
• This and a certain dour grim look he had made me at first consider him quite middle-aged, though I knew later that he was not yet thirty-five.
• With these views, gay and winsome though she was, it was not long before Mary was at issue with her dour Protestant subjects and their spokesman, John Knox.
• While only a few days stood between her and her famous Christmas afternoons, she and her dour husband were having a bitter council of war.
• It takes the adaptability and dour determination of a Scot to fit into this niche.
• He had found another billet for old Ranger, and had installed a dour Scotchman in his place.
• Did she care to be as dour and sour as a spinster? Such women became more acrimonious with each new birthday.
• MCKINNEL, who made the perfect foil to her charms that every good husband should wish to be, he seems never to tire of playing these stern, dour, semi-brutal parts.
• Perhaps, too, only a Scotchman knows how good it is, and only a Lowland Scot knows how admirable a character is the dour, brave, conceited David Balfour.

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