DOWN IN THE MOUTH Synonyms: 168 Similar and Opposite Words

down in the mouth

adjective

Definition of down in the mouth next

as in sad

feeling unhappiness after a disastrous date like that, anyone would be down in the mouth

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Recent Examples of down in the mouth Many of our emotion terms are references to states of the body—we’re downcast, bent out of shape, head over heels, shaken up, down in the mouth—which have slowly rigidified into dead metaphor. —

Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022

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Myriad other parties this week included soirees hosted by GQ, which may or may not still publish a magazine, and Sports Illustrated, which cut its once-stellar staff to the bone and became a sad shell of its former self but evidently can still afford to throw a Super Bowl party.

— Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Possibly chatting with his new security detail., which reportedly is a sad reality.

— Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2025

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