downer

Example Sentences

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Sorry to be a downer, but the reality is December and January are typically the months when companies cut the most jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

The ending’s a downer, all right, but you might just smile too.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 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

It sounded like Petey’s usual downer talk, though it wasn’t.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles