- a dispirited and resigned expression on her face.
- a downcast glance.
- a gloomy silence.
- depressed by the loss of his job.
- downcast after his defeat.
- feeling discouraged and downhearted.
- gloomy at the thought of what he had to face.
- gloomy predictions.
- lonely and blue in a strange city.
- the darkening mood.
- took a grim view of the economy.