The word 'bereft' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective meaning 'sad and lonely because something loved or valued is lost', for example: She was bereft after losing her beloved pet.
Is there not something there for bereft Pietersen fans – and indeed those who wish he had stayed South African?
I would have been bereft but immediately after the jump-off I was standing next to the unsaddling arena as the British celebrated.
The SDLP, bereft of veterans like retired leader John Hume and former deputy Seamus Mallon, looked likely to lose seats in East Londonderry, Newry/Armagh, Lagan Valley and West Tyrone.
The mining industry is not surprisingly bereft of credibility when it comes to interpreting the science linking their products to the reef's welfare.
The Express was anti-EU and anti-migrant while Nigel Farage was still bereft of widespread public support.
This was the opposite of the Tizi n'Test – quick, easy and bereft of any views, local colour or sights of interest.
Only when put under the pump have they appeared a little bereft: they need more ideas than simply to bang the ball into the middle of the pitch and hope for a miscue.
With the country bereft of heavy industry – and scrambling to find work for a youth population starved of jobs – the sector is widely seen as the fuel that can keep the Greek economy's engine going.
If we don't make it known that most happiness studies say that mothers are no happier than childless women – sometimes quite the reverse – then women without children will always unnecessarily feel bereft.
Hillsides are bereft of trees, leaving communities such as hers increasingly vulnerable to floods and landslides.
Click here to watch Back in the relatively halcyon days of 2013, The X Factor was so bereft of ideas that it made the contestants cover songs by previous contestants (oddly missing out 2004 alumnus Tabby Callaghan's presumptuously named single, Number One, or any songs from his subsequent album, Bread vs Art).
