Definition of "moroseness"

He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […]

With the typical moroseness of a dipping twitcher he turned to me, looking cynically at my spotlight, and said, `I don't like your chances, mate.'

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 217