lowspirited

Dear little Georgie has seemed lowspirited about his grandma all day and begs to go back to see her.

Diary, March 19-August 25, 1864. 1864

The guarded glance of half solicitude half curiosity augmented by friendliness which he gave at Stephen's at present morose expression of features did not throw a flood of light, none at all in fact on the problem as to whether he had let himself be badly bamboozled to judge by two or three lowspirited remarks he let drop or the other way about saw through the affair and for some reason or other best known to himself allowed matters to more or less.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911