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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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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But the driver was shaking his head dolefully. (source)dolefully = in a manner that was full of sadness
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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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"Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." (source)dolefully = sadly
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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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"Yeah man," Lige would cut in, dolefully. (source)dolefully = full of sadness
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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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