undispirited

Updated: May 1, 2025

Such attention would have been demonstrative and complimentary; and in the present case Felix might have passed for an undispirited young exile revisiting the haunts of his childhood. He kept looking at the violent blue of the sky, at the scintillating air, at the scattered and multiplied patches of color.

Henry James - The Europeans

Richard Hunt was smiling to him from his horse on the edge of the crowd. The last horse was a brown mare led in by a halter. She was old and a trifle lame, and Chad, still undispirited, called out this time louder than ever: "Five dollars!"

John Fox - The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come