Citations:divorced guy energy

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) a psychological state stereotypically characteristic of a recently-divorced man"

 * 2019, Harry Cheadle, "A Few Ideas for Those Rich People Who Have More Money Than They Can Spend", Vice, 7 June 2019:
 * Elon Musk shot off a car into a void, a reeking-of-divorced-guy-energy Jeff Bezos recently announced he was into space colonies, and now NASA is planning on letting private companies sell extremely expensive tickets to the International Space Station.
 * 2019, Ellen Vestby, "TIFF Review: Quentin Dupieux’s ‘Deerskin’ is Divorced Guy Energy: The Movie", The Film Stage, 16 September 2019:
 * Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin can essentially be summarized as Divorced Guy Energy: The Movie. A ribbing of masculinity that alternates between bone-dry and morbid humor to great effect, it may come across as an easily discernible film ideologically.
 * 2021, Elliot Hoste, "Kanye West enters his dad-rap era with new album Donda", New Statesman, 31 August 2021:
 * On this chaotic, overstuffed record, West’s divorced-guy energy cannot hide his declining artistry.
 * 2021, Iona Murray, "Love Life Recap: Ass Time", Vulture, 28 October 2021:
 * Ostensibly, the end of a relationship opens up a fresh new chapter in Marcus’s life, but he radiates woeful levels of divorced-guy energy.
 * 2022, Lila Monroe, Maverick Mogul, unnumbered page:
 * He sighs. "Sorry about everything back there. Nothing like divorced guy energy to liven up a wedding."
 * Divorced guy. That's part of who Charlie Fox is, and I had no idea.
 * 2022, Louis Staples, "How the 'divorced guy' became a meme and an identity", GQ (UK), 12 January 2022:
 * Divorced guy energy, on the other hand, seems to be defined by a sense of tragicness and grievance.
 * 2022, Brian Grubb, "The ‘Righteous Gemstones’ Halo Report: A Ballad Of Motorcycle Ninjas And Mutiny", Uproxx, 7 February 2022:
 * He has so much Divorced Guy Energy radiating off of him that he might open the next episode glowing like one of those hideous deep-sea fish that needs to illuminate its own body to navigate in the dark.
 * 2022, Cockburn, "Tim Ryan has big ‘divorced guy’ energy", The Spectator, 1 November 2022 (used in title only):
 * The Democrats’ Senate hopeful exudes a profound melancholy