These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'downcast.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 The mood on the tune is both glamorous and downcast. 2022 There also is an approach that has proven uplifting during this somewhat downcast time for the Heat. 2022 One of the Elizabeth II loans here (stamped with the insignia of her great-grandfather, Edward VII) is a drawing by Hans Holbein, depicting a woman with downcast eyes and a slight double chin. 2022 On Tuesday morning, Buster, wearing a downcast expression, pulled up in his gray GMC Yukon outside the Georgia apartment, then carried a basket of laundry inside before leaving. 2022 In one video, irate workers surrounded a silent, downcast manager in a conference room to voice grievances and question their COVID test results. 2023 In one video, irate workers surrounded a silent, downcast manager in a conference room to voice grievances and question their Covid test results. Synonyms for DOWNCAST: bowed, downward, lowered, down, depressed, sad, unhappy, heartbroken Antonyms of DOWNCAST: lifted, upward, elevated, uplifted, raised. Brian McCollum, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023 She’s a housewife, always a bit downcast, or least quiet and reserved. "Oh, yes! It was very sweet, and I'm much obliged to whoever translated it for me." And Meg's downcast face brightened as she spoke.Recent Examples on the Web With his offhanded singsong delivery, spare instrumentation and arsenal of songs that manage to be simultaneously downcast and extravagant, Drake has wielded an outsized influence on the sound of mainstream hip-hop and even R&B the past decade.
My spirits sank under these words, and I became very downcast and heavy of heart.įor a time Sir Nigel was very moody and downcast, with bent brows and eyes upon the pommel of his saddle. One of whom, having never before understood that Thornton was so soon and so completely to be his home, was pondering with downcast eyes on what it would be not to see Edmund every day and the other, startled from the agreeable fancies she had been previously indulging on the strength of her brother's description, no longer able, in the picture she had been forming of a future Thornton, to shut out the church, sink the clergyman, and see only the respectable, elegant, modernised, and occasional residence of a man of independent fortune, was considering Sir Thomas, with decided ill-will, as the destroyer of all this, and suffering the more from that involuntary forbearance which his character and manner commanded, and from not daring to relieve herself by a single attempt at throwing ridicule on his cause. March looked silently at the downcast face of her pretty daughter, and could not find it in her heart to blame her little follies.Īnd, when she saw him in the evening, while she worked with her friend, slowly pacing the drawing-room for an hour together in silent thoughtfulness, with downcast eyes and contracted brow, she felt secure from all possibility of wronging him. (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) My daughter was extremely downcast when she couldnt get ice cream, but I promised her we would go to the park later. Second, create a new instance of the Employee class and assign it to the. His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness. Upcasting First, define the Employee class that inherits from the Person class. Mate getting very impatient with them feared some trouble ahead. All said they expected something of the kind, but would not say more than there was something aboard. Micawber accepted my proffered arm on one side, and the proffered arm of Traddles on the other, and walked away between us. Turning from the building in a downcast manner, Mr. (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) I could read it from thy reddened cheek and downcast eye. Ashamed of his mistake, he stood before us with downcast eyes.
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