disconsolately
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When Desire Doue walked off slowly and disconsolately after only 64 minutes at Arsenal in October, the teenager touted as French football's next golden boy looked alone and out of his depth.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
I stared disconsolately at three crumpled slips of loose-leaf paper.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
The players of the runners-up will likely sit disconsolately in their locker room and wonder, with some justification, what more it could have done.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2019
The telescoping nature of collapse — from the frailness of the physical body to the tragedy of the national soul — lends these pages a loss that is both painfully intimate and disconsolately vast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2017
A little disconsolately she got out the footstool and spread a napkin over it.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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