All 5 Uses of
melancholy
in
Babbitt
- He beheld the tower as a temple-spire of the religion of business, a faith passionate, exalted, surpassing common men; and as he clumped down to breakfast he whistled the ballad "Oh, by gee, by gosh, by jingo" as though it were a hymn melancholy and noble.†
Chpt 1 *
- He may be viewed to-night as a plump, smooth, pink, baldish, podgy goodman, robbed of the importance of spectacles, squatting in breast-high water, scraping his lather-smeared cheeks with a safety-razor like a tiny lawn-mower, and with melancholy dignity clawing through the water to recover a slippery and active piece of soap.†
Chpt 7
- The melancholy stranger was Sir Gerald Doak.†
Chpt 19
- With melancholy he looked back at the last suburb of Zenith.†
Chpt 25
- She who had seemed well content to wait for him at her flat had begun to hint with melancholy smiles that he must think but little of her if he never introduced her to his friends, if he was unwilling to be seen with her except at the movies.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad