blue funk
Example Sentences
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Our adult daughter, 28, doesn’t call us often, but often when she does, she is in a blue funk and sees every aspect of her life as a negative.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2022
The beauty and transience of life may have triggered her blue funk, which she views in a matter-of-fact fashion.
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2018
Civility puts me in a blue funk too.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2012
What I admired most about the book, I think, is the lack of sourness intermixed with its blue funk.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2011
Having thrown the blue funk, usual to a man in your position, you’ll now settle down to business.”
From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.