Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a forlorn, forsaken, or wretched manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a forlorn manner.

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  • adverb In a forlorn manner; done with intentions of abandonment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a forlorn manner

Etymologies

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forlorn +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets.

    Cri de coeur 2009

  • These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • She seemed, of a sudden, as she leaned heavily on his arm, a presaging apparition out of the dim future, an adumbration of her own body grown frail and old, looking up to him for help, calling forlornly to him for solace.

    Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

  • But in my self-service, I have done you a disservice, he said forlornly.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • At the corner, the charcoal husk of a car smoldered forlornly, resting on its rims like a tired cow.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • At the corner, the charcoal husk of a car smoldered forlornly, resting on its rims like a tired cow.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • But in my self-service, I have done you a disservice, he said forlornly.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • An ice axe lay forlornly on the snow below rock buttresses high on Harrison Stickle, the most dominant of the Langdale Pikes.

    Country diary: Great Langdale, Lake District 2011

  • Both ads use the same stock video of Cofield walking forlornly alongside her shuttered brake-pad production facility.

    Strickland goes negative in first campaign ad 2010

  • A little later, queuing forlornly towards U.S. customs and immigration, a tall, middle-aged man — Canadian passport, je regrette — passed the time by clipping his fingernails.

    O tempora, O mores 2009

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