Words similar to melancholy

Example sentences for: melancholy

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Room 17: Canaletto’s hugely popular 18th-century vedute (views) of Venice were aristocratic precursors of modern postcards; in such works as Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Francesco Guardi achieved both poetry and melancholy.
Peanuts, with its neurosis, unrequited love, and melancholy was newsprint Woody Allen.
dims sadness; depression; melancholy: an attack of the dims .
The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.
The decaying, cream-colored building still exudes a certain haughty, if melancholy, grandeur.