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• n  a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
• s  directed downward
  a downcast glance
• s  filled with melancholy and despondency
  downcast after his defeat

• Kaushal says he's just about breaking even, but in another part of the mall, the manager of a shoe store is even more downcast.
• At rehearsal, the singers were tired and downcast.
• The huge poster of a vibrant young Betancourt that hung for years on the faade of city hall there was changed last November to a haunting image of a drawn woman with downcast .

• gloomy
• grim
• blue
• depressed
• dispirited
• down
• downhearted
• down in the mouth
• low
• low-spirited

News & Articles

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• Concert preview: The National, Ohio sons turned indie titans return to headline Next@Wex Fest at the LC
  By now, listeners know what to expect from The National. Nobody does downcast-yet-uplifting elegant midlife crisis rock better — or more singularly — than the Brooklyn-based Cincinnati natives.
  June 12, 2013 - Columbus Alive
• NSA leaker Ed Snowden's girlfriend: A 'pole-dancing super hero' now 'lost at sea'
  The girlfriend of Edward Snowden, the man at the heart of the NSA whistleblowing who's now hiding in Hong Kong, says she's heartbroken, downcast, "lost at sea" without her hoped-for fiance. She also calls herself in an August 2011 blog post a "world-traveling, pole-dancing super hero" who's "always wanted to ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Washington Times

Quotes

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• Ian Paisley in Belfast Telegraph
  Rev Paisley said: "I understand that he was downcast many a day, understand that he was disappointed, understand he was angry and I understand that, perhaps, he even lost his temper. But I want to say that he treated me with the greatest of...
• Pranab Mukherjee in Hindu
  ...a conference on 'Financial crisis, global economic governance and development' here, Mr. Mukherjee, who is currently holding additional charge of Finance, said: "As next year's [2009-10] outlook is more downcast...... the Government will...
• Abraham Lincoln in Sauk Prairie Eagle
  I'm worried I left people with a very downcast and disturbed feeling,"Lincoln" told the News Republic, staying in character following his speech. "I think the tide is turning. I think we will overcome and be one nation."