desolate
He sat there desolately looking at his shoes.
a desolately beautiful landscape
She couldn't bear to see him standing there so desolately.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
dog
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

Examples of desolately

desolately
The entire scene was desolately savage and forlorn, but attractive.
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She stood looking desolately around the room, and her simple heart tasted its own bitterness.
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The cab starts; the deserted husband drifts desolately anyhow down the street.
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The tall prairie grass waved desolately in the wind.
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The bare, deeply shadowed floor, the kitchen table, the blank windows, and the blackened range, in which the fire was out, came desolately into view.
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Then she sat down desolately and began to cry, wondering what ever she should do.
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The door of her tower creaked desolately to and fro a little, open as she had left it.
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All her instincts are social, and she is, for the time being, almost desolately alone in a wilderness of strange human beings.
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I saw him look desolately about the square with its bench-rows filled with huddled and motionless sleepers.
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He rejoiced to see general and field-officers riding desolately about the barren camp deprived of their commands.
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For two hours she sat desolately on the horse block and then sadly entered the house with a cold in her head.
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From the tangle of dead briars the cold rain dripped desolately.
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Then he fell to wandering desolately about the studio.
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Notwithstanding a night as delightful as could be imagined, to-day it rained nearly all day most desolately.
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I wondered whether men ever felt so desolately alone.
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