disconsolate
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Marianne is first consumed by her own infatuation, then disconsolate when Willoughby dumps her for an heiress, and finally felled by a fever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Fulham's players looked understandably disconsolate - and their counterparts know the feeling, having already been on the receiving end of late sucker punches themselves against Brighton, Arsenal and Liverpool this season.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
He’d always been change-averse; when I rearranged the furniture in our Ohio family room when Aaron was about 6, he was disconsolate, wailing for days like King Lear in the storm: “Why is everything different?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2024
This time the finger of blame is directed at goalkeeper Onana, who understandably looked disconsolate as the final whistle sounded on a stormy night on the pitch and overhead in Istanbul.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
The gossiwor, played only in the king’s presence, produces a preposterous disconsolate bellow.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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