All 3 Uses of
forlorn
in
Main Street
- He indicated with a forlornly waving hand the shelves of shoe-boxes, the seat of thin wood perforated in rosettes, the display of shoe-trees and tin boxes of blacking, the lithograph of a smirking young woman with cherry cheeks who proclaimed in the exalted poetry of advertising, "My tootsies never got hep to what pedal perfection was till I got a pair of clever classy Cleopatra Shoes."†
Chpt 10
- Monstrous tattered clouds sprawled round a forlorn moon; puddles and rocks glistened with inner light.†
Chpt 33 *
- Forlornly, "Uh——Carrie, what the devil is it you want, anyway?"†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(forlorn) sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned