blue funk

noun

1. slang,  a state of great terror or loss of nerve

Example Sentences

Our adult daughter, 28, doesn’t call us often, but often when she does, she is in a blue funk and sees every aspect of her life as a negative.

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Despite the blue funk he wallowed in after Hillary lost to Obama in the 2008 primaries, he pulled out of it to deliver a speech in Denver that bestowed on the usurper his full blessing.

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The beauty and transience of life may have triggered her blue funk, which she views in a matter-of-fact fashion.

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Regardless of the manufacturer’s woes, many customers are left with the blue funk of betrayal, and cars of uncertain future.

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Civility puts me in a blue funk too.

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