mournfully
Adverb
Meaning
in a mournful manner
Source: WordNetSynonyms
sorrowfully
ruefully
unfortunately
sadly
sad
passionately
acutely
darkly
miserably
poignantly
woefully
deplorably
regretfully
gloomily
drearily
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the young man stared into his glass mournfully
In the end, the movie turns mournfully self-reflexive, with intimations of aesthetic utopia amid the rubble of history.
“You wanted to sail around the world,” he says to her mournfully.