Disconsolate

He would have gone moping about for years in disconsolate solitude, silent and sullen as a ghost, or would have rent the air with unavailing shrieks and lamentations. ❋ Unknown (1823)

"I knew I'd find you here," called a disconsolate voice, and Emma Dean appeared from behind a huge flowering bush. ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)

Little wonder that the kind Duchess looked "disconsolate" in the middle of her content! ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

It seems to me you look kind of disconsolate this morning. " ❋ Various (N/A)

I wandered around disconsolate, listless, and squinting. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2011)

Ricardo Vieira [pt] explains how Senna's death has left millions disconsolate: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Offer hope and humor to men who are disconsolate after a relationship has hit the rocks ❋ Steven Crandell (2012)

By the time of the next pep rally, everyone's at each others throats and a disconsolate Coach Taylor can barely bring himself to utter the word "victory." ❋ Unknown (2011)

He anointed bodies, listened to rescuers, and consoled both the disconsolate and their consolers. ❋ Sister Mary Ann Walsh (2011)

To these disconsolate few, the news last year that the M division was going to hot up the 135i coupe the E82 platform, in nerd-speak must have sounded like salvation. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Meanwhile, at Westminster Tube station, disconsolate penguins swathed in scarves waited in vain for a train to Stanmore. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He arrived brimming with enthusiasm that was lost on his disconsolate squad. ❋ Scott Gummer (2011)

Everyone loves a winner, and progressives are angry and disconsolate with Mr. Obama because they increasingly see him as a loser. ❋ James Taranto (2011)

This remarkable venture combines memorable themes with striking ensemble-writing, dramatic brass and percussion sounds and a faintly disconsolate beauty, writes John Fordham ❋ Unknown (2011)

Most years, if I am on the East Coast, I visit the gravesite where my parents and Bubbah are buried and attempt to make peace with disconsolate relatives. ❋ Cheryl Pearl Sucher (2011)

Minor, a CNN Hero, tells the story of a woman who became disconsolate, barely able to get out of bed to care for her three kids and a newborn after her husband died in a fire. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)