forlornness
- a word derived from forlorn.
Example Sentences
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Two artists who move in disparate circles reminded us of what it means for a song to capture a common forlornness.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2024
There is a forlornness to the bungalow, which the owner seems to have set up initially as a family home, with its paint chipping in several places.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2023
Cobbled together from found objects — a lamp with a crooked shade, rusty tools, a shopping cart commandeered as an operating table — it imbues the site of an at-home abortion with almost unbearable forlornness.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2022
But at Cannes, amid the aftershocks of the election, he said he was overcome by a profound forlornness.
From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2018
But even after the sour of the encounter had faded, forlornness welled up around him.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
