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

A strange moodiness had come over her, and even with him at home she had at times given way to fits of downheartedness which seemed altogether alien to her nature.

From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.

There is no more pregnant a "reviver" of downheartedness than letters from the old people, nor is anything more liable to inspire the "pip" than the absence of such personal touches with familiar scenes.

From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by Blicq, A. Stanley

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

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)