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
I did not in that first moment of utter downheartedness so much as inquire the reason for the trick which had been played upon me.
From International Short Stories American by Various
Mr. Southwode's detail, while it interested her terribly, and in a sort nattered her, also reduced her to a very low feeling of downheartedness.
From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan
At these words all Lisbeth's downheartedness vanished, and she felt only how festive and cozy it was to be at home again.
From Lisbeth Longfrock by Poulsson, Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth)
Fortune once more takes us into her good graces, and we are scarcely able to understand our past downheartedness in view of the new happiness to which we have fallen heirs.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix
