Definition of "desolately" [des•o•late•ly]

• In a desolate manner (adverb)

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• "Even did she ride to anchor, desolately lonely, in the Bay of a Thousand Ships."
• "I've watched poor black taxi drivers and domestics slog desolately through their day in Caribbean island resorts, knowing that for them the standard of living enjoyed by the tourists they serve will never be in reach."
• "Dura-Europos, too, was situated in a far-flung, desolately picturesque spot: at the edge of the Syrian desert near Iraq on a long-abandoned plateau abutting the Euphrates."