depressingly
- a word derived from depressing.
Example Sentences
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The slow, creeping death of the theatrical comedy has depressingly coincided with an age when things have never been less funny.
From Salon • Aug. 1, 2025
Film critics have offered a range of views about Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, calling it both "bleak and daring", but also "depressingly dull and plodding".
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024
As a child, I was drawn to The Sims as a role-play for adulthood, a world of expansive promise and possibility; playing For Rent, I was reminded, depressingly, of how the game is rigged.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2024
It’s a depressingly reliable fact of Los Angeles architecture: Nothing comes easily on Bunker Hill.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024
It became depressingly easy to lie about my comings and goings.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
