low-spirited

Example Sentences

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The Audience is limited and low-spirited, and may perhaps number—including the Attendants—eighteen.

From Voces Populi by Anstey, F.

On these occasions he brightens up, but after the visits of his solicitor he is visibly very low-spirited and morose.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

I was still far from well, low-spirited and out of humour with myself and the whole world.

From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Moodie, Susanna

My mother had not been in her usual good health during the summer, and had been at times a little low-spirited.

From The Story of the Toys by Dodge, Mary Harris Toy

The widow rallied him on the subject, but this did no good, and only irritated him; he called her wicked, jealous, and blind, and would go away, low-spirited, carrying his treasure with him.

From Iermola by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy