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

Roma's disconsolate technical director Florent Ghisolfi talked to the press after the defeat.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024

There were breakfast sandwiches that, disconsolate, I did not even finish.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

Her voice was trembling with sadness, and she wiped her disconsolate face as she disappeared behind the hut and headed back to the main village.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah