gloom

Short came to embody the inverse of that picture, the shaded gloom lurking in places that escape sunshiny illumination.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Compounding the novel’s Gothic gloom is the sense that these confessions do not provide their speakers any absolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

But let’s not be all gloom and doom.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

The gloom has a lot to do with high prices and wages that are struggling to keep up.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

She felt the water pressure steadily increasing, but before it became dangerous, the seabed emerged from the gloom.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011

Joey's thin, sad face glooms out of the card's corner as if he felt the same way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Church adored Turner, the greatest theatrician of landscape who ever lived, with his cloud arches and burning transparencies, his glooms and veils of color.

From Time Magazine Archive

Day was coming again in the world outside, and far beyond the glooms of Mordor the Sun was climbing over the eastern rim of Middle-earth; but here all was still dark as night.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

In it, jobbers gloomed that they are under the thumb of Fruit Dispatch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the Bank of France's fusty servants, aging pensioners of the world's second largest gold hoard, gloomed darkly over their frugal supper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alsop gloomed that the treatment of Kissinger—a product of the "enormous, Watergate-induced self-importance of the American press"—might further decrease the value of the dollar and put U.S. foreign policy "on the dung heap of disorder."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hotelmen, chambers of commerce, merchants and convention bureaus in 38 U.S. cities gloomed that the half-billion-dollar annual convention "industry" is all washed up until the war is won.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hall was gloomed with the dot of yellow light from an oil lamp turned down so low that it jerked expiringly.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021

Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

After glooming for years over the falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: A green glooming fluid in a sticky bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr