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  • adverb In a depressive manner.

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Examples

  • One person becomes controlling, another anxiously vigilant, another person pretends that nothing at all matters, and still another is depressively passive.

    Michael Bader, D.M.H.: No, Virginia -- AT&T Just Seems Like the Great Satan D.M.H. Michael Bader 2011

  • One person becomes controlling, another anxiously vigilant, another person pretends that nothing at all matters, and still another is depressively passive.

    Michael Bader, D.M.H.: No, Virginia -- AT&T Just Seems Like the Great Satan D.M.H. Michael Bader 2011

  • It should make for the sort of book that has you depressively thinking "no thank you" at first glance, but not so.

    The Law of Bound Hearts 2007

  • It should make for the sort of book that has you depressively thinking "no thank you" at first glance, but not so.

    The Law of Bound Hearts 2007

  • It should make for the sort of book that has you depressively thinking "no thank you" at first glance, but not so.

    54 entries from April 2007 2007

  • It gets me the way Wes Anderson gets me when Margot walks off that bus to Nico's "These Days" or Harold drives his car to Cat Stevens '"Trouble" or Benjamin Braddock depressively swims and fornicates to Simon and Garfunkle's "April Come She Will" or Sam Rothstein falls for Ginger to "Love is Strange" (I could list more than a dozenScorsese music moments that touch me in multiple ways).

    Kim Morgan: Be My Bloody Baby, Marty 2009

  • Perhaps I was a bit too depressively unkind to point that out?

    More Than Just a Haircut - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • I am just so down and things are kind of pants, and I don't like writing so depressively/negatively here.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • The Wood Man, we learn, is a silent and odd character, something of a pest, who lets himself into Hilda's house and lies silently, depressively, on his back before the fire.

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2012

  • Between the government, and MTV, I'm completely, utterly, and depressively embarrassed to be an American.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

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