melancholic
adjective
disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
melancholically
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a word derived from
melancholic.
Example Sentences
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“Every time I pull my hair, well, it’s only out of fear/That you’ll find me ugly and one day you’ll disappear,” the 21-year-old British musician confesses, melancholically, to an unappreciative guy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
Watkins was a runner, and she’s melancholically aware of the dislocations that her ambition has caused.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017
Even so, Waltz is melancholically and romantically gentle, and the closing In Two Minds is a quiet improv conversation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2012
That's a melancholically pretty image of the inevitable cold apocalypse.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012
The young girl shook her head melancholically, made no answer, and continued to gaze at the sky.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
