melancholy
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“It smells of melancholy and what-the-hell-just-happened,” the fake ad states.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
He says he understands their melancholy, as he finds Christmas depressing and annually looks forward to its end.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
“De Gaulle’s thinking, by contrast, was permeated by a sense of the inevitable and by a melancholy, sometimes apocalyptic, belief that all human enterprises will fail sooner or later.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Once brash and unapologetic, his humour now carries a quiet melancholy - yet it lands with the precise timing of someone who has learned what it takes to survive.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
“Don’t be cheeky, Jack,” remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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