Meaning of low-hearted | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Depressed, despondent, or dispirited
2. Morally reprehensible, cowardly, or untrustworthy.
3. Modest and unassuming.
   obsolete

Examples

“Weary, slack-jointed, low-hearted as they were, the deadly Coast-fever fell upon them, and they shivered, and burned,and groaned,and raved, and leaped into holes, or rolled into campfires.”

“The afternoon Bonita an' I were married, when Gene an' the padre had gone, I was happy one minute an' low-hearted the next.”

“A dull, sulky, low-hearted state has always been natural to me, relieved only by quick bursts of excitement (not happiness) over my own⟳ art, other men's art, sex & sport.”

“A base⟳, low-hearted wretch, as you justly call⟳ him, with all his pride of ancestry; and more an enemy to himself with regard to his present⟳ and future happiness, than to you, in the barbarous and ungrateful wrongs he has done you; […]”

“I would not find⟳ myself at thirty brigaded with a set⟳ of low-hearted priests and seminarists, who have⟳ no other weapons than treachery, nor any strategy but lies.”

“Now they harm⟳ the people, and the malign influence⟳ behind this lies with low-hearted officials who put⟳ all their efforts into catching them.”

“His poor countrymen, seeing his boldness, began to fetch⟳ deep sighs and groan like⟳ so many chained lions, speaking so loud that the khan as well as the four low-hearted chiefs, could hear⟳ them.”

“He was an aged man, with a withered countenance, down-looking, and low-hearted, probably (I hope⟳ it was so) the outcome of remorse.”

“I was low-hearted in my ways, and she was hoping in hers, like⟳ her father was.”

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