for•lorn / fawr-lawrn / adj.

1. desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
2. appearing sad or lonely because deserted or abandoned; despairing: forlorn glances.


The street meat vendor said $3.50 and when I gave him a one dollar bill, three pennies and forty nickels he looked at me with the same forlorn expression usually reserved for middle age men standing out in the bitter cold waiting for their dogs to crap.