dispiritedly

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1. In a dispirited manner.

   "Ah, well," he said, shrugging his shoulders dispiritedly.

   1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 45

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   Cora's dazed stare followed them to earth and returned to Bradly, still unable to visualize him as a pauper. Bradly, having done with pretences and illusions, now dispiritedly accepted the inevitable.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 209