cafard

British  

/ kafar /

noun

1. a feeling of severe depression

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Etymology

Origin of cafard

C20: from French, literally: cockroach, hypocrite

Example Sentences

There is le cafard, too, the blues that lonely, tired women get the world over after a long day's work.

From Time Magazine Archive

"J'ai le cafard," announces the soldat and he is amok with a little beetle running round and round in his brains.

From Time Magazine Archive

We, here at command, figure on you fellows getting a touch of space cafard once in a while and, ah, imagining something wrong in the engines and coming in.

From Medal of Honor by Bernklau

God might not be there, but Pity had come back; Jean Liotard no longer had "cafard."

From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John

Max had heard men say jokingly or solemnly of each other, "He has the cafard."

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)