triste

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for triste
Adjective
  • The sad reality is that Lucky really hasn't had all that much luck in his life to date.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
  • Collins, who has previously celebrated the unique pleasures of the early dinner, finds something to like about lunch in all its guises—the power lunch, the liquid lunch, even the sad desk lunch.
    Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • Only Hunter Goodman, a catcher who played for Hartford in 2022 and 23, will represent the woebegone franchise in the All-Star Game.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2025
  • 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
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
  • Dan, who sometimes looks a little forlorn, is troubled by something...
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
  • The forlorn and broken-hearted are now tortured with watching an ex’s new life unfold right on their phone.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Had that been the case, my glum head would have hit the pillow last night with nothing but images of Emil Bove to put me to sleep unamused. — Joe Pachino, Baltimore Add your voice: Respond to this piece or other Sun content by submitting your own letter.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2025
  • Losses weren’t quite as dire as on Thursday for media and tech stocks, but the morning still signaled a glum end to a turbulent week.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Apr. 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
  • The prosecutors remained seated, subdued and by all appearances despondent.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 2 July 2025
  • 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
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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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