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

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

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

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

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.]