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depressing

If something is depressing it makes you sad. I find news about problems in the world depressing.

depressing

If you are depressing something, you are making it lower.

depressing

(= cheerless, uncheerful) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy the economic outlook is depressing something cheerless about the room a moody and uncheerful person an uncheerful place

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Simple sentences

I can't think of anything more depressing than that.
Black is depressing.
That was depressing.
It was depressing.
What I saw was depressing.
That is a depressing thought.
That's a depressing thought.
The linguistic homogeneity of this place is depressing.
That sounds depressing.
They call it an English grammar book; I call it an arduous, soul-draining and depressing experience pushing the limits of human patience.
It's depressing in here.
Tell me what is depressing you so much.
This town is so depressing.
This place is so depressing.
It is a depressing prospect.
It's a depressing prospect.

Movie subtitles

The fact that you guys can't even tell is really depressing.
It's a trifle depressing.
Very depressing having your own daughter married, and not be there.
This place is very depressing.
I seem to be depressing you pretty thoroughly.
If that spirit is dampened. it would have a depressing effect and delay her recovery.
And depressing.
It's too depressing.
It has its depressing moments.
Interesting and somewhat depressing for it emphasised how far I had yet to travel.
Hoffy, I'm sorry about the mouse trap, but the war news are very depressing anyway.
It's opening night of the last depressing week of L.B. Jefferies in a cast.
It's depressing!
Of course the insane are depressing to be around.
It's depressing.
Jack, my future looks pretty depressing.
How depressing.
That's what's so depressing. My own father, a scoundrel. Mortgaging the mortgage on our castle which was already mortgaged.
It's so depressing.
Depressing, huh?
Must be depressing to be a bird. and know the hunting season is on.
To tell the truth, I find it ever so slightly depressing.
V.S., I think I'm going to bring a depressing note into the proceedings.
I'm not gonna wear black anymore. It's depressing.
It's depressing as it is!
That's a depressing conception.
The calendar's full of them. It's opening night of the last depressing week of L B Jefferies in a cast.
Quit that strumming, monk! It's depressing!
All the places in decline are the same. They're depressing.
It's depressing, believe me.

News and current affairs

Though this is partially offset by foreign-exchange reserves, Japan now faces massive disaster-relief costs - and this on top of its depressing demographic trends.
With higher interest rates depressing housing prices, the game is over.
Oil prices may fall once these shocks dissipate, but speculative effects could keep them relatively high, weakening the world economy and depressing stock markets.
A depressing aspect of Ferguson's interpretation is his failure to acknowledge the impact of the Great Recession on government performance and business expectations.
The current state of affairs is all the more depressing because global economic growth in the past four years has been the fastest since the early 1970's.
An important victim will be Japan, where anemic real income growth is depressing domestic demand and exports to China sustain what little growth there is.
But it is depressing to hear that many university departments are still in denial.
But if all firms cut wages simultaneously, the resulting weakness of overall demand undermines companies' incentives to invest, in turn depressing productivity growth.
After all, with painful deleveraging - spending less and saving more to reduce debts - depressing domestic private and public demand, the only hope of restoring growth is an improvement in the trade balance, which requires a much weaker euro.
That in itself may have a depressing effect on the economy, partly offsetting the monetary stimulus.
For example, a low mood favors generation of thoughts that are themselves depressing.
Given that there are little more than two months until the Copenhagen summit on climate change, which is supposed to frame the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, this is depressing.
Combining the challenges cited by Gordon and Summers to the view that advanced economies are gradually healing leads to some depressing conclusions.
It is a depressing, pathetic record, which the UN is trying--probably in vain--to redeem by appearing, in the Iraq crisis, as the voice of reason and international legitimacy.
Eliminating or reducing this trade gap without depressing economic activity and employment in Greece requires that the country export more and import less.
But, as with today's toxic assets, there was no market, and rapid disinvestment would have triggered fire-sale prices, depressing all asset values in the economy and resulting in more bank failures.
Critics of Bachelet claim that this agenda is already depressing business investment and is responsible for relatively slow economic growth.
The bust, with its banking problems and unemployment, is likely to last for most of the coming decade, depressing growth in all those countries which looked so strong in 2008.
This is a dark view of modern economies, and a depressing blueprint for the future.
In theory, by depressing aggregate demand, the combination of increased real debt and higher real interest rates could lead to further price declines, leading to even larger negative inflation rates.
I was chief economist of the World Bank in the late 1990s, when we began to receive similarly depressing news from Russia.
Reduced household wealth would lead, in turn, to lower consumer spending, further depressing GDP.

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