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Definition: (adjective) Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.
Synonyms: granitic, obdurate, stony.
Usage: He maintained a hard, careless deportment, indicative of neither joy nor sorrow: if anything, it expressed a flinty gratification at a piece of difficult work successfully executed.
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  2. ireful Definition: (adjective) Feeling or showing extreme anger. Synonyms: irate. Usage: The ireful, angry chief was not so easily mollified. Discuss

  3. labored Definition: (adjective) Requiring or showing effort. Synonyms: heavy. Usage: He knocked again, harder than before, for behind him he heard the steps and the labored breathing of his persecutors. Discuss

  4. despondent Definition: (adjective) Feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom. Synonyms: heartsick. Usage: I did my best to take Mike's mind off his problems, but he was too despondent to smile at my corny jokes. Discuss

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