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Nightlife was downright depressing.
When you arrived, it was downright depressing.
Fort Hood right now is downright depressing.
For a cognitive scientist, it can also be downright depressing.
For an Orioles player, it was downright depressing.
What's more, for most, the jobs were menial, bordering on the downright depressing.
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If it was depressing in 1979, it looks downright miserable today.
The mood was somber in my office, depressing in the post office – which closed before I could get my package out – and downright miserable over the dinner table.
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