Definitions
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- noun The condition of being
heartsick
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
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Examples
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That kind of heartsickness is just the reason Best Coast's modus operandi feels real, or more than a mere throwback to old lovelorn damsels in distress singing about their bad boy dream lovers.
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I could think of no way to console him, nor could I ease my own heartsickness.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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I could think of no way to console him, nor could I ease my own heartsickness.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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I could think of no way to console him, nor could I ease my own heartsickness.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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I could think of no way to console him, nor could I ease my own heartsickness.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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I could think of no way to console him, nor could I ease my own heartsickness.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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Gary sounded as if he was suffering from the same kind of heartsickness that had afflicted her.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Gary sounded as if he was suffering from the same kind of heartsickness that had afflicted her.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Then not only will you bring down on yourself the opprobrium of both sides for failing to take a stand at a moment that demands a choice; you will also find in the prevailing media narrative no hook to hang your conciliatory analysis on, no peg for your empyrean perspective, no patience for your it's-all-so-complicated heartsickness.
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The heartsickness comes in because while I am an ubergeek for the world building, I always feel that Star Wars is a bit of a rotten apple, with a beautiful skin of books, comics, games, reference manuals etc.. wrapped around an inferior core cinema property.
Just What the Doctor Ordered - an Elephant in the Bathtub Lou Anders 2007
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