Mika Brzezinski

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.

American Journalist

Fiona Bruce

I'm astonished at the freedom with which a depressingly large number of men feel they can just say what they want and write the most hideously misogynistic stuff about women.

British Journalist

A. A. Gill

Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.

British Writer

Mark Fisher

Star Wars' was a sell-out from the start, and that is just about the only remarkable thing about this depressingly mediocre franchise.

Used to express a strong, negative emotional reaction to something that's disheartening.

Emotional Impact

Doesn't mean physically depressing something; it's about an emotional effect.

Not Literal

When something is not just sad, but overwhelmingly so.

Intensity Accent

Use when something is much worse than expected, affecting your emotions negatively.

Expectations Matter

Often signifies that the poor performance or quality is not an isolated incident.

Pervasiveness Indication

To emphasize when someone or something fails to reach its potential or expectations.

Underachievement Highlight

 of a prior arrangement, an inherited allocation, of power. As a result of all of this creeping fatalism in public life, we here, particularly in America today, have depressingly low levels

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Depressingly