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forlornly

Adverb

Meaning

In a forlorn manner.

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. Agatha Christie

The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly for a present, a home; and progressives, who look for a lost future. Guy Standing

a single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard Source: Internet

A bundle laid sadly, forlornly on the centre of the table in the sitting room once filled with musical laughter, the gay vivaciousness of the woman who was now reduced to a little pile of ashes. Source: Internet

As you pass through the transdimensional corridor, you can hear them, forlornly filking for all eternity. Source: Internet

The guitar man looked forlornly as the ferry left the dock that day, and with good reason. Source: Internet

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