dolefully
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There slouched John McEnroe, the top-ranked tennis player in the world, dolefully reading a newspaper in a corner of the locker room.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021
“It’s not how I wanted to go out,” he said, dolefully.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2020
“After winning a Grand Slam, everyone thinks that you will win all the tournaments and that’s not like this,” she said rather dolefully in a recent interview.
From Reuters • May 23, 2019
“No more Miranda,” her toddler nephew says dolefully in one video, after Ballinger stays in costume for too long backstage.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2018
After this escape, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window’s encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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