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
A homeless family stands disconsolately before their wrecked home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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 stared disconsolately at three crumpled slips of loose-leaf paper.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
Xavier Trucho, a lean, hangdog, yet almost delicate-looking, cynical man, was slumped disconsolately in an armchair, smoking a cigarette.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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