cafard

/ (French kafar) /

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noun

a feeling of severe depression

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Word Origin for cafard

C20: from French, literally: cockroach, hypocrite

Words nearby cafard

caesium clock, caespitose, caesura, Caetano, C.A.F., cafard, CAFE, café au lait, café-au-lait spot, café brûlot, café car

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How to use cafard in a sentence

I think it is as a refuge from the cafard,—a feeling of after all being a stranger in a strange land.
The Wasted Generation|Owen Johnson
Officers of the Legion old enough to have won a few medals seemed to respect the cafard and make allowances for his deadly work.
A Soldier of the Legion|C. N. Williamson
They mustn't risk disgrace through things which the cafard might make him do.
A Soldier of the Legion|C. N. Williamson
Yesterday, without knowing why, I was a little sad: what soldiers call avoir le cafard.
Letters of a Soldier|Anonymous

The rest of my comrades in the room all had at different times the "cafard" more or less seriously….
In the Foreign Legion|Erwin Rosen