Careful Words

depressed (adj.)

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,—

Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): London. Line 176.

If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares,

The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.

John Gay (1688-1732): The Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 1.