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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.

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Examples

  • It was not alone the olive tint of the skin, the mass of wavy dark hair tossed back from a high forehead, the sombre eyes, and the sad mouth, -- a mouth that had never grown into laughing curves through telling Yankee jokes, -- it was not these that gave him what the boys called a "kind of a downcasted look."

    The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • He looked real downcasted and sad, some as if he'd never thought on't in that light before.

    Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

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