dispiritedly

There it sat, refusing to decompose, for several days, until I finally went out and dispiritedly moved both layers to the garbage can.

Stenger could not muster much of an answer, practically inaudible as he dispiritedly debriefed the senators.

“You need to ask an expert,” she said somewhat dispiritedly, during an interview in her cheery, book-filled attic apartment in central Rome.

Harry wandered dispiritedly toward the library, but halfway there he changed his mind; he didn’t feel like working.

A traveler in the rural South in the summertime is always eating dinner, dispiritedly, in the barely waning heat of the day.