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Downcast
Downcast meaning
Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty. | Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground. | Of a thing: directed downwards.
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Example sentences (18)
Perhaps Johnson was still downcast about not being elected president of the Union at the first time of asking?
Raith Rovers were unable to make it three Fife derby wins out of three this summer at home to Dunfermline Athletic on Saturday, but they’re not yet out of the Viaplay Cup so manager Ian Murray isn’t too downcast about that penalty shootout defeat.
I know you are downcast, but then there is always a new friend around the corner.
Justice Juan M. Merchan then thanked them for their service, and then they filed out, going directly past Mr. Trump, who kept his eyes downcast as they walked by.
The actor, 27, who debuted a new clean haircut, looked downcast as he was seen for the first time since the last minute cancellation.
Bridgers’s lyrical talent was evident on her 2017 debut, “Stranger in the Alps,” which had a few perfect songs but as a whole sometimes felt muted, languid and downcast.
It's an EDM song with which drives hope into downcast people like a hammer to a nail.
A downcast Moine Chaabani, coach of Esperance, congratulated his rival and added: “It’s a disappointment for us.
Diana was very skilful at disarming us, with her downcast eyes and endearing acknowledgement of being as "thick as a plank".
A man whose child was admitted into a psychiatric facility was downcast and lamented how he had been struggling to provide the best opportunities for the child.
Option markets are mirroring a decidedly downcast outlook on the pound, with a gauge of one-year sentiment at the most bearish level since March 2017.
The crestfallen Smith and Warner, stripped of their designations and their dignity, were downcast, going through the motions.
Churchill constantly sought an offensive from Auchinleck, and was downcast at the military reverses in Egypt and Cyrenaica.
Gunther leads in a downcast Brünnhilde, who is astonished to see Siegfried.
In the same source, her appearance is described as half blue and half flesh-coloured and further as having a gloomy, downcast appearance.
On the reverse is Octavian, Octavia his sister, widow of Mark Anthony (downcast flambeau, broken tablets) and Livia, Octavian's third wife who outlived him.
Pleasant, but always dignified, he walked with eyes downcast, most graciously affable to one and all.
There they found the death of Attila accomplished by an effusion of blood, without any wound, and the girl with downcast face weeping beneath her veil.