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

Fortune once more takes us into her good graces, and we are scarcely able to understand our past downheartedness in view of the new happiness to which we have fallen heirs.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

Well," said the colonel, "there is no need for too much downheartedness on that score.

From The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by Driscoll, James R. [pseud.]

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 Poulsson, Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth)

Mr. Southwode's detail, while it interested her terribly, and in a sort nattered her, also reduced her to a very low feeling of downheartedness.

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan