downer

Example Sentences

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It’s just a downer, an inappropriate introduction of ugly real-world truths.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Like virtually all of the climate scientists I spoke with, he’s not trying to be a downer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

Nothing's going to put a downer on it.”

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024

Made in collaboration with Pallenberg’s son Marlon Richards, “Catching Fire” is a redemptive portrait that nevertheless plays like a downer.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

Every year Dad would walk out of the fairgrounds with at least one human-sized stuffed something or other on his shoulders, and every year all of us would hate Mom for being such a downer.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam