melancholy
Example Sentences
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It glides by smoothly, and Ms. Mann’s lilting, melancholy songs are hypnotically lovely, but the characters’ anguish and psychological distress are only faintly sketched in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
King Charles sometimes has the melancholy look of someone who keeps getting disappointing phone calls.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Scenic designer Beowulf Boritt’s quaint tearoom seems both real and hallucinatory, with a melancholy rain pouring down in the background.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
“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
My father was in the meantime overjoyed, and, in the bustle of preparation, only recognised in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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