dejectedness

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Noun
  • There’s both comfort in finding myself in that child’s face, and also sadness.
    Benny Peterson, Vogue, 4 May 2026
  • Amid the sadness and uncertainty, though, one moment captured the aviation community rallying around its own.
    Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • How multiple languages fail in the face of war and oppression.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • We are all born free; taking away someone’s autonomy is an act of oppression.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Unique is meant to embody that racial trauma, but Moore doesn’t possess the grit necessary to make the pain and sorrow resonate.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • The reader feels the moment’s vitality and presence, and the sorrow at its loss, but not because Ford insists on it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But Mizrachi sees potential for Pensacola in some of the same forces that are luring Jews to Boca and Aventure — including unhappiness among New Yorkers with the city’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
    Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Nazarian also discussed the importance of addressing the psychological component of plastic surgery, noting that no procedure will fix underlying unhappiness.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Channeling ’90s slowcore and post-rock into gorgeously brooding odes to dejection, the Chicago quartet’s debut is downer music at its most alluring.
    Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Inside the visiting locker room at Frost Bank Center on Thursday night, there was no sense of dejection from the Detroit Pistons.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • His reputation, as captured by obituaries in the Guardian and the Times of London, is one of genteel melancholy and precise social observation.
    Charlie Tyson, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Still, the achievement carried a touch of melancholy for Lovell.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That said, debt settlement can be a legitimate option, particularly for those who are already in severe financial distress, have accounts that have already gone to collections or are weighing bankruptcy as the alternative.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 6 May 2026
  • Hantavirus is an illness carried by rodents that can spread to humans and cause acute respiratory distress.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Valentine’s Day is like a sweet little respite from February dreariness.
    Rebecca Norris, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026
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“Dejectedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dejectedness. Accessed 9 May. 2026.

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