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heavy-heartedness

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For Democrats, election-day heavy heartedness, the loser's stoicism, had become a way of life.

Light-heartedness or heavy-heartedness comes to the same thing if they know how to use it for each other.

All the heavy-heartedness which a man feels, but never puts into words, flies away with the first or second glass of grog.

I am low and depressed to-night; I scarcely know why: indeed, I have less reason than usual for heavy-heartedness.

Nothing makes moroseness and heavy-heartedness in a house so fast as idleness.

I dared not absent myself, and I could scarcely carry out my part for very heavy-heartedness.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heavy-heartedness, such as: anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, and catatonia.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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