I. adjective
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a secretive, melancholy man
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the melancholy tone of the poem
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Driving over the white wooden bridge that led to the farm, I found I was nursing an odd, melancholy excitement.
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For six weeks after our arrival it rained almost continually and the wind howled melancholy dirges around our chimneys and doors.
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He was much more content now, though melancholy about himself and what he'd come to.
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His songs were melancholy pictures of life and love and the evils of the consumer revolution.
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It is a very beautiful instrument, chiefly used for solo work where a melancholy and expressive tone-quality is appropriate.
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She smiled a knowing, somewhat melancholy smile.
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This melancholy contrast brought to our Southern sensibilities a touch of sadness.
II. noun
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Goya struggled with his feelings of deep melancholy .
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He was a strange man, prone to melancholy and bouts of drinking.
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Jake was fourteen and suffering from adolescent melancholy .
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All that accentuated the swings of mood in a man capable of intense enjoyment but subject also to persistent melancholy .
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Alone on the open desert, I have made up songs of wild, poignant rejoicing and transcendent melancholy .
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He is rueful, polite, mildly disappointed, and afflicted by a low-key melancholy .
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In a mood of bitter-sweet melancholy , I walked back to the centre of Dublin.
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Jacinto, too, describes his malaise and melancholy in speech typical of the Romantic mal du siecle.
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Lights began to go on in the dark houses, and I relished my melancholy to the last drop.
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So now Baez, who recently turned 55, has a sense of accomplishment and relief and even some melancholy .
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The Grand Duke's expression slowly changed to one of melancholy .