DOWN IN THE MOUTH Synonyms: 168 Similar and Opposite Words

down in the mouth

adjective

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as in sad

feeling unhappiness after a disastrous date like that, anyone would be down in the mouth

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Recent Examples of down in the mouth The movie feels more than a little down in the mouth, even with its string of cliffhangers, some visually impressive, tied together with some ill-fitting comic relief. —

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025 Many of our emotion terms are references to states of the body—we’re downcast, bent out of shape, head over heels, shaken up, down in the mouth—which have slowly rigidified into dead metaphor. —

Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022

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The other six ascended to the highest office in the land as a result of the dysfunction that has made Peru a punch line in political-science circles, a sad story of ungovernability played on a loop.

— Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
There’s a one-note quality to the film’s comedy that grows steadily, even deliberately, more abrasive over two hours, but the sad, brash, gradually shrinking bigness of the personalities at its center holds your attention.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 June 2026

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