desolately

comparative more desolately · superlative most desolately

1. In a desolate manner.

   In succession she opened and shut the doors of four desolately empty, cupboardless rooms.

   1891, Margeret Moule, “Catherine Maidment's Burden”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round

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   worn faces (...) / they wander, wander, / Or sit foredone and desolately ponder / Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head.

   1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

   Once he looked at the vault above, but the entire concameration was completely and desolately empty of all save blackness and that westward-waning moon.

   1927, Donald Wandrei, “A Fragment of a Dream”, in The Recluse, Athol, Mass.: W. Paul Cook, page twenty

   "Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation," said Marvin and trudged desolately up the gleaming curved corridor that stretched out before them. "Let's build robots with Genuine People personalities, they said. So they tried out with me. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell can't you?"

   1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Chapter 11