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Adjective
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Too much alcohol and your dreamy dessert turns into a sad, semi-frozen slush.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025 -
All three movies are packed with dinosaurs—dinosaurs running, dinosaurs being sad and winsome, dinosaurs showing ruthless disregard for human life.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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While examples abound, the state’s woebegone bullet train project, its tortuous efforts to implement information technology and the financial and managerial meltdown of its unemployment insurance program are among the most egregious.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
26 Apr. 2025
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Sunday, the Sox, who are now an impossibly bad 31-100, locked up the sixth triple-digit-loss season in their woebegone history with a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
25 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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But on Tuesday, the Royals found a way to pick up their crestfallen teammate in a 10-7 victory.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2025
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The Catalans went into the latest addition of the world’s biggest derby crestfallen after Tuesday’s painful Champions League semifinal second leg exit to Inter Milan.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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In the formerly forlorn Flon warehouse district, Street Cellar is a fun casual eatery and wine bar among a whole slew of such venues that fill up with young people in the evening.—
John Oseid,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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And some Democrats, frustrated and forlorn at a lack of leadership in their own ranks, have embraced him as a hero.—
Gina Kolata,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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So those are the tracks that determinedly break from the overriding tone that runs through the other songs, which is rather more glum, or at least searching and reflective about why too much time got wasted in a long, nowhere love affair.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
20 June 2025
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Returning to work and dealing with strict COVID-19 protocols, inflation and supply-chain issues, crews could be glum.—
Steve Knopper,
Billboard,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Even in those earliest of gloomy days, oxygen — the element O — was all over the place, bound up in molecules like water vapor and quartz and carbon dioxide.—
Laura Poppick,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2025
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But if your yard isn’t particularly shady or a sunny day suddenly turns gloomy, being outside isn’t quite as comfortable.—
Brittany VanDerBill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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As Wilshere and his players greeted the Norwich fans, across the Riverside pitch, Michael Carrick and his Middlesbrough squad were conducting a disconsolate lap of appreciation in a largely emptied stadium.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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After noticing disconsolate tourists wandering the perimeter, Taskinen proposed installing a café on the ground floor and restoring the building’s four spacious apartments into modest but comfortable rooms filled with Artek furniture.—
Michael Snyder,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
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In May 2023, Kesha released Gag Order, a dark, despondent exploration of her trauma, with minimalist production from Rick Rubin and the image of the pop star with a blast bag over her head as its album artwork.—
Jason Lipshutz,
Billboard,
3 July 2025
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Authorities say on June 17, Faye fired his handgun inside the Morgan Hill home of an ex-girlfriend, while reportedly despondent about his misdemeanor child abuse arrest two days earlier in Monterey.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
27 June 2025
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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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