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

The psychological effect of a slight increase in the rations soon neutralized any tendency to downheartedness, but with the high temperatures surface-thaw set in, and our bags and clothes were soaked and sodden.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

Spite of her desperate downheartedness, Diana could not help laughing a little at his manner.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

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

Could Ernest have known Mr. Kurtz's true state of mind, he would have had less reason for downheartedness.

From Miss Theodora A West End Story by Reed, Helen Leah