as in melancholy
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Noun
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Some acknowledged the possibility that melancholy could be inherited.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Mar. 2026 -
What plucks at the heartstrings with its Herb Alpert studio melancholy sounds a little fried here, the song’s plaintive, tentative charm buried under thrashing improvisation.—
Linnie Greene,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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His father bought him the plane ticket after Jeffrey found himself in a bit of a boredom rut with friends and getting into the wrong kind of trouble.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Only Clark’s passivity seems more out of the boredom of having peaked at local-news celebrity status than anything else.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2026
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Those reporters told stories of war in all its gore and its glory, its exhilaration and its ennui.—
Kathy Kiely,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2026
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But that doesn’t mean mathematicians would be crippled with ennui, Litt says.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Cheerlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheerlessness. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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