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

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

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.

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

From Diana by Warner, Susan

Well," said the colonel, "there is no need for too much downheartedness on that score.

From The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by Driscoll, James R. [pseud.]