bleakness

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Recent Examples of bleakness The campaign has already exceeded its goal by more than $38,000 dollars, with six days to go, proving no amount of dystopian bleakness will deter true Black Mirror fans. Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 While The Road confronts us with the bleakness of planetary destruction, the sensory deprivation chamber in which Harpman holds her characters (and, therefore, readers) leaves no choice but to travel deep into our bodies. Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleakness
Noun
  • Farmers markets across the Louisville area will close for the season or switch times and locations as the crisp chill of fall draws near.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Located in the exclusive Woodside community of the Bay Area, the Fleishhacker business and banking family created the ultra-private compound and its famous gardens more than 100 years ago to serve as a summer retreat to escape San Francisco’s seasonal wind, chill and fog.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But her private letters to her sister Cassandra show a sharper and more astringent person, someone whose cruelty and bitterness were redeemed only by her jokes.
    Lucy Worsley September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Bitter Mai Tai is a full-fledged neo classic, first bright with lime and rum, then deep with almond, and then—where a standard Mai Tai would fall away with a lingering malic zing—the Bitter Mai Tai rises in a bold third act, humming with bitterness and the banana-funk of the rum.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Bleakness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleakness. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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