downheartedness
Example Sentences
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This spring’s blighted crop of dystopian novels is pessimistic about technology, about the economy, about politics, and about the planet, making it a more abundant harvest of unhappiness than most other heydays of downheartedness.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
Mr. Hardy's love-poems belong to the literature of downheartedness.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
I did not in that first moment of utter downheartedness so much as inquire the reason for the trick which had been played upon me.
From International Short Stories American by Various
Could Ernest have known Mr. Kurtz's true state of mind, he would have had less reason for downheartedness.
From Miss Theodora A West End Story by Helen Leah Reed
At these words all Lisbeth's downheartedness vanished, and she felt only how festive and cozy it was to be at home again.
From Lisbeth Longfrock by Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth) Poulsson
