lovelorn
adjective
love·lorn
ˈləv-ˌlȯrn 
: bereft of love or of a lover
letters from lovelorn soldiers
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Gobs of reverb, with sweetness at the edges, conveyed his lovelorn bloat.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
The filmmakers infuse a striking amount of hope into the narrative, finding compassion in strangers — everyone from a wealthy vacationing man (James Lance) who buys the starving couple an ice cream to a lovelorn young couple who give them the day’s unsold pastries.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
In the Tim Burton-esque horror comedy set in 1989, Lisa (Kathryn Newton) is an outcast who discovers a lightning storm has resurrected the corpse of a lovelorn Victorian dude (Cole Sprouse), and the two embark on a killer quest to fix him up with new body parts.
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—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
In the first, a couple’s euphoric night turns horrific after one too many pills; in the second, a wild joy ride ends with a seemingly inevitable crash; and in the last, a lovelorn pharmacists finds himself on the harrowing end of an armed robbery.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2024
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
The filmmakers infuse a striking amount of hope into the narrative, finding compassion in strangers — everyone from a wealthy vacationing man (James Lance) who buys the starving couple an ice cream to a lovelorn young couple who give them the day’s unsold pastries.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
In the Tim Burton-esque horror comedy set in 1989, Lisa (Kathryn Newton) is an outcast who discovers a lightning storm has resurrected the corpse of a lovelorn Victorian dude (Cole Sprouse), and the two embark on a killer quest to fix him up with new body parts.
Need a break?
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
In the first, a couple’s euphoric night turns horrific after one too many pills; in the second, a wild joy ride ends with a seemingly inevitable crash; and in the last, a lovelorn pharmacists finds himself on the harrowing end of an armed robbery.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2024
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lovelorn
adjective
love·lorn
ˈləv-ˌlȯ(ə)rn
: deprived of or deserted by one's lover
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