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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