disconsolate

How To Use disconsolate In A Sentence

• Some have left in their wake a trail of disconsolate and usually highly unsuitable young men.
• No one, though, seemed too disconsolate at the prospect of a replay.
• For two or three days it's OK, but for more than that it's a big problem for me," said Matar, 25, a worker at the aluminium refinery who was picking disconsolately through the broken glass and charred debris by Lulu hypermarket. Protests in Oman Sputter
• When word came that Iron Mike had been floored by a virulent attack of the sniffles, his disconsolate well-wishers had to shuffle off without meeting their thick-necked hero.
• Beginning with a gorgeous title sequence during which we watch History Professor George (Burton) and his saucy and sauced wife Martha (Taylor) walking back from a function drunk and cackling, the movie immediately places us in their dark, disconsolate universe -- one of shattered hopes, nihilism, and dipsomaniacal game playing. Kim Morgan: Ugly Talents: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• I have never seen a more disconsolate and desolate group than the National Party after that speech.
• The Countess glanced at a stack of boxes and trunks propped against the wainscoting and at once became disconsolate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
• Leon looked after him rather disconsolately, as though at a loss to understand what could have happened to take all the fight and "bumptiousness" out of the former bully. The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey
• I knew I'd find you here," called a disconsolate voice, and Emma Dean appeared from behind a huge flowering bush. Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College
• The word has even appeared in the funny pages where Dilbert muttered a disconsolate "frack" - the original spelling before producers of the current show changed it to a four-letter word - after a particularly dumb order from his evil twit of a boss. Gazette.com :