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When Desire Doue walked off slowly and disconsolately after only 64 minutes at Arsenal in October, the teenager touted as French football's next golden boy looked alone and out of his depth.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

He added, disconsolately, that a restoration of the property had been “nearly complete.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

“I spent $100 on tickets I can’t use,” the man groused as he tried to argue with one of the theater’s representatives, and then, with his companion, walked disconsolately away.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2021

The players of the runners-up will likely sit disconsolately in their locker room and wonder, with some justification, what more it could have done.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2019

A little disconsolately she got out the footstool and spread a napkin over it.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck