blue funk

Example Sentences

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Our adult daughter, 28, doesn’t call us often, but often when she does, she is in a blue funk and sees every aspect of her life as a negative.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2022

The beauty and transience of life may have triggered her blue funk, which she views in a matter-of-fact fashion.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2018

Civility puts me in a blue funk too.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2012

What I admired most about the book, I think, is the lack of sourness intermixed with its blue funk.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2011

And I told Mr. Thorpe so, and he didn't seem surprised, but he was all of a blue funk, and he said, 'Well,—get a doctor—or whatever is the thing to do.'

From The Come Back by Wells, Carolyn