disconsolately
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If a picture paints a thousand words, the image of Gauff disconsolately trudging off court at Wimbledon in July told us everything.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023
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 spent $100 on tickets I can’t use,” the man groused as he tried to argue with one of the theater’s representatives, and then, with his companion, walked disconsolately away.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2021
The players of the runners-up will likely sit disconsolately in their locker room and wonder, with some justification, what more it could have done.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2019
He wandered to the strange kitchen, thawed some iced huckleberries, ate them disconsolately.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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