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Recent Examples of glumly
Three of the four arrived soberly dressed, one of them, Hodgkin, in a black suit, folded his arms and stared glumly ahead.
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Robin Muir,
Vogue,
12 June 2026
People can be seen running along the top of the bus and sitting on the front bumper as the driver stares glumly ahead from inside windows tagged with graffiti.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative nonprofit American Action Forum, has watched glumly as Republicans have drifted away from their small-government traditions.
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David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
Robin Muir,
Vogue,
12 June 2026
People can be seen running along the top of the bus and sitting on the front bumper as the driver stares glumly ahead from inside windows tagged with graffiti.
—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative nonprofit American Action Forum, has watched glumly as Republicans have drifted away from their small-government traditions.
—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glumly
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Take, for example, Keanu Reeves, who was memeified after a photo of the actor sullenly eating a sandwich went viral.
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Like a fisherman left empty-handed after a heavy pull at her line, the woman sullenly took Sam’s picture.
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Museums abhor windows, so the building has all the approachability of a medieval keep, as gloomily defensive as the park is welcoming.
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In Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes’ mansion.
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Nantz somberly delivered the emotional news while taking several breaks to compose himself.
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The season's penultimate scene finds Carl at his favorite haunt, sipping his morning coffee while somberly staring at his tiny Tom Ruffage diorama figure.
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Adaptations of the Odyssey are always fleshy affairs, with half-naked men lying happily or forlornly on beaches.
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War of the Worlds star Ice Cube now has another reason to stare forlornly at his computer.
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Camp Bravo could only watch dejectedly, finally on the beach to witness defeat up close.
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He was joined by Konstantinos Mavropanos and Jarrod Bowen, who clapped dejectedly.
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Then there is the steady stream of profiles on tech billionaires joylessly devoting themselves to maximizing their lifespan.
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The Vietnam War and Watergate had spawned a paralyzing sense of national distrust, and New Hollywood had reflected that reality beautifully but pessimistically.
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For example, professors Morana Koludrovic and Franceska Delija at the University of Split in Croatia also make the point, more pessimistically, however, that the young can no longer learn from the old, not with all the changes in technology and media.
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But for now, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer remains at a dismally low 13%, according to the American Cancer Society.
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The assets performed dismally in March but rebounded in April.
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“Glumly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glumly. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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