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heartbroken

adjective as in melancholy

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Every time the audience would explode into laughter, he’d look a little heartbroken.

Principal David Rodriguez says he’s heartbroken when he hears of students having to wake up at 4:30 a.m. to make it to school, given the bus schedule.

"We were heartbroken and angry that it had been left so long. From then, Mum went downhill very quickly," she said.

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Ms Howe says he told her he was heartbroken: ''He said he had never seen anything like it.''

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They’re largely lost to time here, but fondly recalled there as bombastic dispatches from a cosmopolitan yet heartbroken immigrant community in L.A.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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