forlorn

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..."what the fuck right do I have to be lonely, unhappy or forlorn?

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marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

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adjective

marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

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adjective

marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

Example sentences

..."what the fuck right do I have to be lonely, unhappy or forlorn?

At the art studio a forlorn man walked upstairs into the lunch room.

Maybe it's a forlorn hope, but it's better than flailing after the tablet ship that sailed past them two years ago.

Odds are that you're better off than the truly forlorn, and you don't need me to tell you that because you already know it.

Not as much threatened as forlorn about our seeming decline in status as a scientific hub for the world.

I guess the day when we don't have to restart a Mac everytime they update Safari is a forlorn dream.

"dsole" also means..."desolated" or "forlorn" when refering to a place instead of a person.

Listerine's new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate's rotten breath.

To swap careers with another forlorn professional, just long enough to rediscover why programming is indeed a for the young at heart.

For I'd rather be thy child And pupil, in the forest wild, Than be the king of men elsewhere, And most sovereign slave of care; To have one moment of thy dawn, Than share the city's year forlorn.

If you had any idea what a discussion consisted of, you would be well underway by now. And you would have avoided trying to connect CF with "germs", even among computer people, people you obviously chose in the forlorn hope of sympathy from ignoramuses.

What I've got right now works well enough to be going on with for most of my purposes, and I suppose I just keep hoping someone will come along and satisfy my now rather forlorn hopes as to the rest.