- Demoralised department head ousted - Disheartened - Down in the dumps when five hundred were thrown out - In low spirits - of Deject - Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected
look or countenance.
- Dumps calm waters - Equatorial calms - Low spirits - A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in
calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all
progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.
- Dejected - Depressed - Low in spirits - Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness,
modesty, dejection, or guilt. - Downcast or melancholy look. - A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in
circulating through a mine.