lonely
adjective
affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.
lonelily
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a word derived from
lonely.
Example Sentences
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No, Freydis: the boy that loved and deserted you is here,"—he beat upon his breast,—"locked in, imprisoned while time lasts, dying very lonelily.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
Your presence peering lonelily there Oppresses me so, I can hardly bear To share the train with you.
From Amores Poems by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Before him lies his son, Within his lone tent, lonelily, The old man sits with eyes that see Through one dim tear—his son!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
And all the time, like an owl on his solitary perch, he had gazed out lonelily, while the other birds of day, too polite to mock him, had merely passed him by.
From Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
"Father, is your wife any better now?" stood out in her later recollection, alone and lonelily startling.
From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
