disconsolately
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When Desire Doue walked off slowly and disconsolately after only 64 minutes at Arsenal in October, the teenager touted as French football's next golden boy looked alone and out of his depth.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
He added, disconsolately, that a restoration of the property had been “nearly complete.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2025
Valadon’s son slumps over disconsolately; her elderly mother stares passively; her tall young lover earnestly occupies his corner; while Valadon herself looks out warily, her mind somewhere else.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
I stared disconsolately at three crumpled slips of loose-leaf paper.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
He wandered to the strange kitchen, thawed some iced huckleberries, ate them disconsolately.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
Vocabulary lists containing disconsolately
