triste

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for triste
Adjective
  • That's the sad reality facing many dogs in the wider shelter system.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
  • Know that all feelings are OK Some kids might be very sad or might be scared, and some kids might not have thought about this at all.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • But on Tuesday, the Royals found a way to pick up their crestfallen teammate in a 10-7 victory.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • San Diego is preparing to offer the forlorn and soon-to-be empty municipal building on the outskirts of the Civic Center for sale or lease.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2025
  • Now you were nailed to one spot, wearing this forlorn or broken expression.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • So those are the tracks that determinedly break from the overriding tone that runs through the other songs, which is rather more glum, or at least searching and reflective about why too much time got wasted in a long, nowhere love affair.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 20 June 2025
  • Returning to work and dealing with strict COVID-19 protocols, inflation and supply-chain issues, crews could be glum.
    Steve Knopper, Billboard, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • After a celebratory June, which saw the S&P 500 reach record highs, July is off to a gloomy start.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 8 July 2025
  • Meteorologists are calling for rain on race day for the third consecutive year, and the long-term forecast for the race’s future on the NASCAR schedule looks gloomier.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • In May 2023, Kesha released Gag Order, a dark, despondent exploration of her trauma, with minimalist production from Rick Rubin and the image of the pop star with a blast bag over her head as its album artwork.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 3 July 2025
  • Authorities say on June 17, Faye fired his handgun inside the Morgan Hill home of an ex-girlfriend, while reportedly despondent about his misdemeanor child abuse arrest two days earlier in Monterey.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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