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

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.]

Fortune once more takes us into her good graces, and we are scarcely able to understand our past downheartedness in view of the new happiness to which we have fallen heirs.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

Hussey, with his cheeriness and his banjo, was another vital factor in chasing away any tendency to downheartedness.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

A strange moodiness had come over her, and even with him at home she had at times given way to fits of downheartedness which seemed altogether alien to her nature.

From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.