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Meanings of lovelorn in inglês

Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love.

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Emotional and sometimes physical suffering because of unfulfilled or rejected love.

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Examples for "bereft"
Examples for "bereft"
1
It is bereft of new ideas and is manifestly failing in government.
The South African
2
I need not feel so bereft just because the aliora were gone.
Summers at Castle Auburn
3
They all stared at him, immersed in another crisis, bereft of speech.
The Evil Shepherd
4
And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare, Hatch said.
Reuters
5
Something terrifying was happening to the savage who had been left bereft.
Metro 2033
1
There had been no change in nature unnoticed or unbeloved by her.
Cobwebs and Cables
2
Prizes came late: he was unbeloved by the establishment he flayed.
The Guardian
3
His beloved relatives obtain the good, his unbeloved relatives the evil he has done.
Sacred Books of the East
4
Not unbeloved is this serious tree, the elm, with its leaf sitting close, unthrilled.
The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays
5
Prosperity Street is the external power locus of the wizard Jarrow, my most unbeloved colleague.
Rogues
Usage of lovelorn in inglês
1
A lovelorn British earl fakes amnesia to win back his estranged wife.
Wired
2
He wandered in the garden and mourned in a lovelorn way.
Twenty-Two Goblins
3
His lovelorn state had grown worse and he found the delay too long.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
4
The season has been equally unpropitious to the lovelorn Phoebe Wilkins.
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
5
But for the lovelorn, sometimes the odds of it happening seem exasperatingly slim.
The Irish Times
6
Widowspeak Brooklyn trio earning plaudits for their lovelorn self-titled album for Captured Tracks.
The Irish Times
7
So rest easy, my beautiful, lovelorn damsel-youwill be a duchess.
The Honor of the Name
8
Anne Hirst, who advises the lovelorn, has two entirely different faces.
The new yorker
9
She was the ghost of a lovelorn girl; gravity had no power over her.
Shadow fall
10
Everyone from local governments to lovelorn brides-to-be are being engulfed by the shopping frenzy.
The South African
11
Trudy couldn't imagine men writing lovelorn letters to female murderers.
I'd know you anywhere
12
It's a lovelorn album written in the wake of his break-up with Aldous Harding.
Radio NZ
13
Kurt Vile: the man with the hip, careworn, lovelorn folk and rock talks turkey.
The Irish Times
14
It's a horrid little paper-allbrown-paperpatterns and advice to the lovelorn and puzzles.
Something New
15
Campbell's languid, lovelorn, hazy vocals narrate these tales against a rich palette of sounds.
The Irish Times
16
Then he behaved just like a lovelorn beau, when his best girl comes near.
Welsh Fairy Tales
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