depressing
Example Sentences
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Common throughout the show is the juxtaposition of art that holds out optimistic visions of technology’s possibilities with works that put forward more depressing perspectives about the harms it can entail.
He sounded so earnest, I couldn’t tell him I’d found the picture depressing and melodramatic.
From Literature
A temporary plant closure leaves U.S. ranchers with one less buyer for their cattle, depressing livestock prices.
True, but the glumness of said world is central to Hoover’s zeitgeisty appeal — a point she underlines a few beats later, Kenna insisting that the radio only ever plays depressing songs.
From Los Angeles Times
Seibert, who learned to code at age 12, said he’s found the transition depressing at times because a skill he’s spent his life perfecting is “just gone. It’s not needed anymore.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
