downheartedness
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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
There is no more pregnant a "reviver" of downheartedness than letters from the old people, nor is anything more liable to inspire the "pip" than the absence of such personal touches with familiar scenes.
From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by A. Stanley Blicq
Mr. Southwode's detail, while it interested her terribly, and in a sort nattered her, also reduced her to a very low feeling of downheartedness.
From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
Mr. Hardy's love-poems belong to the literature of downheartedness.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
Well," said the colonel, "there is no need for too much downheartedness on that score.
From The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by James R. [pseud.] Driscoll
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