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painful(sad, awful, miserable, grim)
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peevish
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poignant(sad, wretched, pitiful, pathetic)
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saddened(sad, gloomy, miserable, down)
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snappish
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surly
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wailful(bad, sad, sorrow, depression)
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comfortless(sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
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crushed(sad, unhappy, gloomy)
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disappointing(sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
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down in the mouth(expression, idiom, bad, blue)
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downbeat(blue, sad, depression, gloomy)
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dragged(dull, bad, blue, sad)
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elegiac(sad, gloomy, melancholy, sorrowful)
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heart-rending(sad, awful, miserable, grim)
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low spirited(expression, idiom, blue, sad)
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mirthless(sad, gloomy, miserable, down)
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sepulchral(dull, dark, gloomy, melancholy)
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serious(dull, dark, gloomy, melancholy)
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sober(dull, dark, gloomy)
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