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Recent Examples of Synonyms for triste
Adjective
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My back hurt from that sad excuse for a chair (seriously, who designs dining chairs to feel like medieval torture devices?).—
Renae Gregoire,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025 -
Stewart is still thanked by gay fans by creating such a rare, highly visible (albeit sad) representation.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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While examples abound, the state’s woebegone bullet train project, its tortuous efforts to implement information technology and the financial and managerial meltdown of its unemployment insurance program are among the most egregious.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
26 Apr. 2025
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Sunday, the Sox, who are now an impossibly bad 31-100, locked up the sixth triple-digit-loss season in their woebegone history with a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
25 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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The Catalans went into the latest addition of the world’s biggest derby crestfallen after Tuesday’s painful Champions League semifinal second leg exit to Inter Milan.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The cameras lingered on crestfallen Aston Villa faces.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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The second jewel of the Triple Crown has long owned its forlorn middle-child status.—
Dana O'Neil,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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The only hope comes from gloomy Americans and forlorn Eastern Europeans in service to a weary national idea.—
Armond White,
National Review,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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Give me this version of Philadelphia mayhem over the glum Long Bright River or Dope Thief any day.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2025
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Sometimes they’re carried along on glum motorcycle rides, meandering downriver journeys, and great leaps forward in time.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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Low gas prices have been a bright spot for the US economy amid an overall gloomy outlook due to President Donald Trump’s trade war and a decline in consumer sentiment.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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Their everlasting merrymaking might seem warm and fuzzy at first glance, but in truth, there is a gloomy undercurrent to their existence, hiding just beneath the surface.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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As Wilshere and his players greeted the Norwich fans, across the Riverside pitch, Michael Carrick and his Middlesbrough squad were conducting a disconsolate lap of appreciation in a largely emptied stadium.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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After noticing disconsolate tourists wandering the perimeter, Taskinen proposed installing a café on the ground floor and restoring the building’s four spacious apartments into modest but comfortable rooms filled with Artek furniture.—
Michael Snyder,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Carey is despondent and gets out of the car, walking all the way to Julie and Paul’s through swampy water as the titles play over Dabney Morris and David Wingo’s jaunty score.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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One half of Wembley was despondent and increasingly empty.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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