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downer
noun as in depressing experience
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Despite Tea’s no-holds-barred stories of these difficulties, “Knocking Myself UP” is far from a downer.
It’s really hard because you don’t want to be the downer when your whole community is based around this idea of stoke.
This can make my time in the outdoors a bit of a bummer or even a real downer.
On the one hand, it’s a relief that Another Round isn’t the bleak downer you think it’s going to be, a story about a man ruined by alcoholism.
Stream it on Hulu This quirky and quiet adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ 2012 young adult novel sounds like a real downer.
But—not to be a Debbie Downer here—your death and my death are inevitable.
Unlike steroids, which make a guy crazy, HGH is mostly a quality-of-life downer.
France does not like to see it described as an AIDS documentary, which inevitably sounds like something of a downer.
On top of everything else, I do not want to seem like the Debbie Downer in this scenario.
Few political watchers thought Romney would wrap anything up Tuesday, but the returns must still have come as a bit of a downer.
The accompanying portrait is from an oil painting in the possession of his grand-daughter, Mrs. Samuel Downer, of Dorchester.
There was Downer, a little Freshman, white with the excitement of his first public performance.
Here Dr. Eliphalet Downer, in single combat with a soldier, killed him with a bayonet.
“Very well, Jerry Downer; you are dismissed,” and he waved Jerry out of the room.
Last fall I potted some of the Downer, and in the winter grew them in the house.
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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to downer, such as: bummer, drag, misfortune, bad deal, bad scene, and bad trip.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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