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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Uncle Rory could not be more depressing than reality was, just now.
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When the young unemployed include graduates with valuable knowledge, it is even more depressing .
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It might have been more depressing if I had been otherwise ready to leave.
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There is nothing more depressing than sitting and watching the paper peel off the walls.
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They were older, more overcrowded, less well furnished, more depressing , and so on.
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Perhaps more depressing than actual shortages of provision is the tendency to alienate the old in contemporary society.
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Can you imagine anything more depressing ?
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Her therapist, she thought, was the most depressing person she knew, and that was saying something.
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There's nothing quite so depressing as watching your tan fade along with the memories of that wonderful holiday.
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However, sunshine was a sparse commodity and we found the short, dark winter days of these latitudes very depressing at first.
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It can be very depressing watching these magnificent warriors being crushed by falling boulders.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I find it really depressing that my old neighborhood has gotten so run-down.
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It's such a depressing town - it's full of ugly, disused factories.
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It was a depressing book.
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Listening to the news can be really depressing , when all you ever hear about is violence and crime.
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The Deerhunter was a very depressing movie about Vietnam.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blanche visited one which met in a room above a pub in Clapham on a Friday night but found the experience depressing .
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Don't you find that depressing ?
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I doubt if my picture, though depressing , is too gloomy.
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It was, Greg Hocking thought, both depressing and familiar.
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Situated on the ground floor of the prison, it is dark, depressing and claustrophobic.
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There was something about Chilete and the cloud-mist drizzle of that dreadful morning that was utterly depressing .
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Unfortunately, there is still a depressing number of poor quality certified organic wines around.
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We had tea in the dining-room, a depressing room which looked into a court.