triste
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of triste
from French
Example Sentences
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“Que triste que no se vacunan,” my dad said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
My dog may not speak Italian, but she totally knows I’m feeling triste.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2020
Thus in la noche triste, or the sad night as it was immediately named, Mexico City's students and the government reached a tragic climax of the quarrels that began last July.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Georges, vin du pays had become vin triste.
From Time Magazine Archive
When four days of penance have so passed, Lilian grows triste, then argumentative, then downright irritable, distracting Lady Chetwoode by asking her perpetually, with tears in her eyes, when she thinks she will be well.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
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