Sample Sentences fordoleful (editor-reviewed)
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It was another year of a doleful Detroit economy.doleful = very sad; or causing sadness or misfortune
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It's not unusual, on the outskirts of Dawson Creek, to see a dozen or more doleful-looking men and women standing along the shoulder with extended thumbs. (source)doleful = sad
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He had short, bandy legs, long straggly ginger hair and bloodshot, baggy eyes that gave him the doleful look of a basset hound. (source)doleful = sad (full of sadness)
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She would stay in bed, wearing an old winter coat over her pajamas, a weary, doleful, unsmiling presence in the apartment. (source)doleful = full of sadness
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Even that most doleful of Christian laments—"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"—sounded snappy and upbeat through these women's windpipes as they sauntered along: (source)
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She looked sort of doleful. (source)
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...a huge cylindrical drum, covered with the skins of great serpents, like the one that Bernal Diaz saw when he went with Cortes into the Mexican temple, and of whose doleful sound he has left us so vivid a description. (source)doleful = sorrowful (full of sadness)
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But the driver was shaking his head dolefully. (source)dolefully = in a manner that was full of sadness
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The grandmother took Helene away from the soft lights and flowered carpets of the Sundown House and raised her under the dolesome eyes of a multicolored Virgin Mary, counseling her to be constantly on guard for any sign of her mother's wild blood.† (source)
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At the ending-stave then it after befalleth That the shell of his body sinks fleeting away, And falleth all fey; and another one fetcheth, E'en one that undolefully dealeth the treasure, The earl's gains of aforetime, and fear never heedeth.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undolefully means not and reverses the meaning of dolefully. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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You sound as doleful as a funeral... (source)doleful = sad
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"Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." (source)dolefully = sadly
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Her mother's doleful rhythm followed them everywhere. (source)doleful = expressing or causing sadness
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"I'll try to be a model pupil," agreed Anne dolefully. (source)dolefully = full of sorrow
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At his words, Arjun broke into doleful sobs and his brother, Thambi, followed suit. (source)doleful = full of sadness
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(Dolefully.) I suppose we'll have to go to sleep. (source)
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