depressing

There is an accepted wisdom England must start well, but it is depressing to think everyone should go home if the visitors lose in Perth.

“Decline and Fall, too depressing,” he said, and sighed heavily.

“And their apartments! They were so tiny and depressing! Why they choose to live there is beyond me.”

While one or two posts like this might have gone unnoticed, the volume of them created a depressing sequence during a short 10-minute scroll.

While that approach has helped Germany balance budgets in the past, it has eaten into Germans’ purchasing power, depressing consumption.