LOW-SPIRITEDLY Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

low-spiritedly

adverb

as in downheartedly

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The Manchester City star sat dejectedly on the bench after he was subbed out for Jorgen Strand Larsen in the second half of extra time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
Camp Bravo could only watch dejectedly, finally on the beach to witness defeat up close.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 17 June 2026

Definition of dejectedly

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Gray has always displayed a probing visual style, boldly confrontational yet painfully tender.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
Reich played Boss Gibbons, the painfully Gen-Z co-worker of Megan Stalter’s expat Jessica, in his first-ever screen acting role.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of painfully

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Without these vital exchanges informing his state of mind, his volatility seems arbitrary (though sadly, neither version manages to make his comedic quips really land).

— Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2026
Comms executive Shari Rosenblum is departing 20th Television and 20th Television Animation after nearly three decades, Variety has sadly learned.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of sadly

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Alberto learns that his grandfather—whom his mother, Teresa (Lola Dueñas), was bitterly estranged from and never introduced her son to—has recently died and left him a curious inheritance, a mystery that needs untangling.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2026
The race is widely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu's nearly unbroken 17-year rule, which had left Israelis bitterly divided on a host of issues even before the deadliest attack in the country's history.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of bitterly

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For other families quietly and often despairingly living with similar problems of addiction and mental illness involving their children, the tragedy is an unnerving, looming specter — a worst-case scenario made real.

— Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
Parents of children made sickest must wait it out in the hospital, despairingly wondering whether their child will die.

— Noel T. Brewer, STAT, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of despairingly

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The city has made the supplemental payment for four straight years, part of an effort sparked by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot to stabilize the city’s woefully underfunded public pensions.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
The report paints a picture of the federal system for protecting farm animals in transit as woefully inadequate and largely toothless, dating back to the era when livestock traveled primarily by rail.

— Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of woefully

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