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the downcast
adjective
Looking downwards.
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"I'm trying not to be depressed," the downcast duck says at one juncture.
At first, he was welcomed as a potential savior by the downcast nation.
Looking at the downcast faces, my friend Elizabeth Stewart said, "Never fear, Cake Doctor's here".
HIGH SCHOOL was a lost cause for Priscilla Rivera, a child of the downcast mill city of Holyoke, Mass.
Coral Glynn is the downcast young nurse who has come to care for the terminally ill lady of the house.
"Since your character is educated, she should speak in a more sophisticated way," the woman told the downcast author.
What is important is this: the hero dashes after the downcast heroine to tell her that he loves her.
Papa Smurf has the downcast look of a smurf who has compromised his artistic integrity, and knows it.
But "Hedonistic Paradise" feels like a fugitive waltz by Madeleine Peyroux; "February" evokes the downcast chic of Keren Ann.
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The right was over the top, the left downcast.
And that left the tedium to ITV, the perennially downcast Adrian Chiles figure of British television.
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