lower the spirits



beat down, cast down, damp, dampen, darken, dash, deject, depress, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, knock down, lour, lower, oppress,

   primrose-coloured - beige, buff, canary, cream, creamy, ecru, fallow, gilded, gilt, gold, golden, lemon, or, primrose, sallow,

   swell it - pontificate, put on, swank, swell ,

   moon around - bum around, do nothing, goof off, hang around, idle, laze, lazy, loaf, loiter, loll, lounge, mooch, moon, sit, slouch,

   precipitateness - carelessness, haste, hastiness, impatience, impulsiveness, precipitation, quickness, rashness, recklessness, rush, speed, suddenness, temerity, unexpectedness ,

   bazaar - auto show, boat show, commercial complex, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, flea market, market, market overt, marketplace, mart, open market, plaza, sale,

   make a beginning - break in, get going, get off, start up, warm up ,

   purblind - authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blear-eyed, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, dark, deaf, deaf to reason, dim,

   evasion of responsibility - accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, bargain, composition, concession, cop out, deal, give-and-take, settlement, surrender, understanding, yielding ,

   cut direct - cold shoulder, cut, disregard, humiliation, rebuff, repulse, slight, sneer, sniff, snort, snub, spurn ,

   inelegant - all thumbs, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, blemished, blotted, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, chintzy, clownish,