melancholy
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“De Gaulle’s thinking, by contrast, was permeated by a sense of the inevitable and by a melancholy, sometimes apocalyptic, belief that all human enterprises will fail sooner or later.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
And yet for all this success, a persistent melancholy stalked the writer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
"My life is a broken roller coaster, but maybe I'm the only one to blame," they sing on the melancholy Merry Go Round.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Cue the synthetic flute chords of “Veridis Quo,” scoring their mutual melancholy.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
Lydia’s going to Brighton was all that consoled her for her melancholy conviction of her husband’s never intending to go there himself.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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