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adj. - Marked by or showing hopelessness.

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Usage examples (32)
  • "Will, is that you?" called a forlorn voice from the depths.
  • This attacking column might have been called a forlorn hope, so few men had she with her.
  • He recalled the forlorn little smile with which she had accepted von Elmur's lover-like protestations at Madame de Sagan's doorway.
  • I lay back on the sofa and kicked the cushions with my feet in a kind of forlorn anger.
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