depressing
adjective
serving to depress; inducing a state of depression.
depressingly
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a word derived from
depressing.
Example Sentences
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This is a depressingly resigned and remarkably fatalistic admission from a U.S. senator.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Directing this retread, in a depressingly self-debasing big-screen debut, is Thomas Kail, who won a Tony for staging “Hamilton.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
This is all predictably, depressingly American, Barshad writes.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
It became depressingly easy to lie about my comings and goings.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
