downheartedness
Example Sentences
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This spring’s blighted crop of dystopian novels is pessimistic about technology, about the economy, about politics, and about the planet, making it a more abundant harvest of unhappiness than most other heydays of downheartedness.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
Could Ernest have known Mr. Kurtz's true state of mind, he would have had less reason for downheartedness.
From Miss Theodora A West End Story by Reed, Helen Leah
Hussey, with his cheeriness and his banjo, was another vital factor in chasing away any tendency to downheartedness.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir
Spite of her desperate downheartedness, Diana could not help laughing a little at his manner.
From Diana by Warner, Susan
Mr. Hardy's love-poems belong to the literature of downheartedness.
From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert
