downheartedness
- a word derived from downhearted.
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
Mr. Hardy's love-poems belong to the literature of downheartedness.
From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert
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
The psychological effect of a slight increase in the rations soon neutralized any tendency to downheartedness, but with the high temperatures surface-thaw set in, and our bags and clothes were soaked and sodden.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir
