(a.) Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) After she hit the two-year mark, five-month mark, she’s been despondent.
(2) It was hard to reconcile Pistorius's despondent figure in black suit and tie and white shirt with the "blade runner" who thrilled stadiums around the world and became the first amputee to run in the Olympics .
(3) But actually what we felt as the days and weeks passed – me and Kelly and my father – was a sense of despondency, of being let down, of just sinking through the system.
(4) In 46%, the subject had expressed despondency over illness.
(5) There is a sense of despondency spreading in Pakistan.
(6) The value of Brazil's currency, the real, has ballooned since President Lula took power, leaving exporters despondent and leading Goldman Sachs to classify it as the most overvalued currency on earth.
(7) , became a battle manual for despondent Democrats after George W Bush’s second election victory.
(8) He told worshippers at Durham cathedral: "It is very easy to be despondent about the church.
(9) Pablo Simón, a political science professor at Madrid’s Carlos III University, argues that a fresh election and the attendant politicking could further alienate an already despondent electorate.
(10) In Spike Jonze 's Her, set in a near future LA, Phoenix is Theodore, a despondent, solitary writer whose life picks up when he falls in love with Samantha, a portable, artificially intelligent operating system who provides more than he could have hoped for.
(11) [It is] all the Ds: despair, depression, despondency.” “Chinese media are under a lot of pressure right now.
(12) Jose Mourinho: Rafa Benitez destroyed my work at Inter within six months Read more There wasn’t too much to get excited or despondent about in any of the displays in New York, Charlotte or here in Washington DC.
(13) Rob came very close to death many times, and I think part of James's despondency now comes from having saved Rob so many times, only to lose him in the end.
(14) They have been left despondent by Francis's occasional comments on the issue, in which he has generally defended the church while condemning the abuse.
(15) Despondent MPs tonight voiced fears that Britain may experience a milder version of the "clean hands" affair that brought down Italy's postwar political settlement in the 1990s.
(16) Strong was despondent over Bilibid but recovered and developed a noteworthy career in American tropical medicine.
(17) It has been demonstrated that a small proportion of women taking oral contraceptives develop a depressive syndrome characterized by despondency, tension, and changes in sex desire.
(18) A classic portrait of the grieving widower, his despondency did not surprise mental health professionals.
(19) For those who don't get the results they hoped for – and their chosen universities – the moments after the envelope are full of dread and despondency.
(20) It is easy to see why players bounce off Klopp and indeed it was tempting to wonder if Chelsea’s despondent players were casting the occasional envious glance at the German, whose energetic and engrossing touchline demeanour offered a welcome shade of light next to José Mourinho ’s dark scowl.
Downcast
Definition:
(a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
(n.) Downcast or melancholy look.
(n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Green campaigners were rejoicing over the departure of the climate sceptic, while the National Farmers' Union was downcast at the exit of a cabinet minister who consistently stuck up for rural areas.
(2) In a concession message posted on Facebook, Hofer urged his supporters to not be downcast.
(3) But a downcast-looking Slim had managed to fulfil his promise to play live for fans.
(4) Moyles opened the show after the 6.30am news bulletin sounding downcast and launched into a long diatribe: "Do you know what, I wasn't going to come in today.
(5) It’s not Trump,” said one downcast store-owner recently.
(6) I was in captivity for three months and 20 days,” she says, eyes downcast.
(7) Look at him earlier this week, a downcast shadow at his own manifesto launch.
(8) It's mood may be as relentlessly downcast as ever, but Amnesiac sees Radiohead drawing a vast array of sounds and influences into their woeful world.
(9) Defoe looked furious with himself for missing that one and his manager simply downcast as he chewed his gum with increasingly manic intensity.
(10) No downcast beams to light up what was coming, breaking water, way off the coast.
(11) Cameron, who began his own ARV treatment 15 years ago, added: "While people are downcast after Marikana [mine massacre] and the slowing economy, I think Aids point to a public service achievement and shows we can do it if we put our minds to it."
(12) Any honest reporter will record the sheer weight of indifference, ignorance and cynicism that sends you away downcast by the distance between the disengaged and our little world of political obsessives.
(13) "It's disappointing, I wasn't expecting this," said a deeply downcast Poyet.
(14) A downcast Pep Guardiola later admitted his defence's frailties.
(15) Aristide's wife stood with her eyes downcast, twisting a handkerchief.
(16) And Swanny, who is not the most demonstrative person on the planet, had this really weird look on his face and said, ‘You can’t give the j’accuse speech and then sit down and do your correspondence.’ I was thinking, ‘Well, that must have hit a bit harder than it felt.’” Across the chamber, her political foes looked suddenly downcast.
(17) Outfoxed, out of luck and abandoned as never before, he looked tired and downcast.
(18) In short, Luhansk, under the LPR, has become a city of downcast faces.
(19) Eyes downcast, head bowed, hands clasped and legs crossed; Eddie, an introverted wheelchair user, had been in a dementia care home for a decade when he began sessions with arts charity Age Exchange .
(20) A downcast Sanchez spent most of the hearing with his head bowed, appearing to fight back tears while the judge explained the charge to him.