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- appalling
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- deathly
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- doleful
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- hapless
- heart-rending
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- lamentable
- mournful
- pitiable
- ruinous
- sorrowful
- unhappy
- woeful
- wretched
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When it was revealed that Lil Peep died from an overdose of fentanyl and Xanax, it was tragic, but not surprising.
We Hear Dead People: Our Favorite Posthumous Hip-Hop Albums. Ever | Joshua Eferighe | August 31, 2020 | OzyOne particular case, of course, is the tragic death of Xu YuYu, which I spoke about earlier.
Podcast: Want consumer privacy? Try China | Michael Reilly | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Losing access to that as a research community would be tragic.
The human cost of a WeChat ban: severing a hundred million ties | Karen Hao | August 13, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIt’s hard to think of it as being too tragic, in that sense.
Within minutes, it seems, of the disclosures of these tragic events, large numbers of people chose a side and stuck to it.
Your death is a tragic bookend to a year touted as the “transgender tipping point.”
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen | Parker Molloy | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTStill, I worry that a simple traffic stop could have tragic consequences.
What Would Happen if I Got in White Cop’s Face? | Goldie Taylor | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are plenty of tragic and inspiring choices, but the most obvious legacy Castro will leave behind is the broken family.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind | Brin-Jonathan Butler | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“This is tragic because nobody needs good policing more than poorer neighborhoods with higher crime rates,” Obama said.
Sometimes it comes in literal sobriety, sometimes in derisive travesti, sometimes in tragic aggravation.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuThe landlady had related the tragic history of the dead mother and the invalid aunt.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThe tall policeman was an artist at the work; but it nearly brought him to a tragic end, as I will relate.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHe remembered Tony's words later: that another actor was expected with whose entry the piece would turn more real—turn tragic.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodHer tragic attitude, her wondrous beauty, awed the men, and they lowered the guns that had been raised to slay the father.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. Dunn
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