ADJECTIVE
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filled with melancholy and despondency
gloomy predictions
downcast after his defeat
depressed by the loss of his job
feeling discouraged and downhearted
a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
the darkening mood
lonely and blue in a strange city
a gloomy silence
took a grim view of the economy
How To Use down in the mouth In A Sentence
- Ah Hsiang squeezed through from behind the forewomen , looking very down in the mouth.
- Mrs. Foster is quite right in looking sharp after your colds, which is very generous of me to say, as I am down in the mouth and should have been cheered by a chat. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
- Don't be so down in the mouth," chimed in Echion, the ragman; Satyricon