(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.
Exultant
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) I mean, why would they?” Abbott later told reporters in Canberra of the need for action “when you’ve got people born in Australia, educated in Australia, going overseas and exultantly holding up the severed heads of surrendering members of the Iraqi security forces”.
(2) Tony Abbott has defended the need to force people returning from declared conflict zones to prove they were there for legitimate purposes, saying Australian-born fighters were “exultantly holding up the severed heads of surrendering members of the Iraqi security forces”.
(3) It was a phase in Rooke's experience that he never forgot, though never exulted in nor even willingly discussed.
(4) Not that this exultant need for freedom is anything new.
(5) It was a day of relief as well as exultation, manager José Mourinho’s third title with the club, his first since he returned in 2013 for his second stint as manager, and only the fifth Chelsea had ever won, despite all the recent investment from their billionaire owner Roman Abramovich.
(6) One young woman shoots a German soldier and almost vomits with shock; a kindly old postmistress takes an axe to the head of another Nazi, and her face is exultant at the savage act.
(7) Two years later he was outraged when the title track of Born in the USA, written in the voice of an embittered Vietnam veteran, was appropriated by the Republican party, who mistook its deceptively exultant chorus and tried to use it as a flag-waving campaign anthem for Ronald Reagan.
(8) Pope Francis transformed New York City’s entertainment forum, Madison Square Garden, into a realm of worship and reverence on Thursday night to cap an indelible day in which he exulted in and elevated the spirit of America’s raucous, throbbing metropolis.
(9) I used to stand among people, knowing my body was strong and fine, under my dress, and secretly exult."
(10) "I have a friend in Ireland who knit his Action Man an entire kit, including a tent," exults Meg Fairfax-Fielding.
(11) Sue Ledwith Ruskin College, Oxford • Guy Standing exults over Magna Carta as "one of the greatest political documents of all time".
(12) He’s the one representing minorities across the US,” exulted Yuliana Miranda, 23, a teacher, amid deafening chants of “Bernie”.
(13) We did it!” she exulted to cheering supporters two hours after polls closed.
(14) "That," adds Punzo, "is what life has become: the exultation of mediocrity.
(15) I never read Trollope or Wilkie Collins in England, I never swooned exultantly over finding a Virago-edition Rosamond Lehmann novel, or a Two Ronnies video at a yard-sale.
(16) Later in the afternoon, an exultant Trump celebrated with dozens of Republican congressmen at the White House.
(17) When I exultantly spat the knotted string out into my hand, she looked at it and said, horrified, "Is that phlegm?
(18) He would humiliate husbands and sometimes he exulted in a kind of mutual sexual degradation.
(19) The exultant Democrat voiced the deep frustration of millions of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, including “struggling rust belt communities and small towns that have been hollowed out by lost jobs and lost hope”.
(20) As he exits the platform he hi-fives his coach, chalk dust pluming from their exultation.