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Definition

expressing or causing sadness

doleful = very sad; or causing sadness or misfortune

Her doleful story of ruin did not sound so sad to those who had never had anything.
The bell continued to swing, strike, and vibrate, with the same doleful regularity as when a corpse is on its way to the tomb.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- From Twice Told Tales
[among the tombs] I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
Shakespeare, William -- King John
You sound as doleful as a funeral...
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

doleful = sad

his mind began dolefully telling him that he was on a wild goose chase.
Stephen King -- Cujo

dolefully = full of sadness

Your father, Mr. David, was a kind gentleman; but he was weak, dolefully weak;
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped

dolefully = sadly (in a manner that is full of sadness)

dolefully = in a manner that was full of sadness

The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition ... partly from the tales of strange sights, and doleful lamentations,
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

doleful = sad

(Dolefully.) I suppose we'll have to go to sleep.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

dolefully = full of sadness

"Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

dolefully = sadly

And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate for a company that had met such cruel losses in the morning.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island

dolefully = full of sadness

Each held a large earthenware jar, containing pebbles, and jerked it up and down in time to a doleful chant.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India

doleful = expressing sadness

I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
William Shakespeare -- The Winter's Tale

doleful = full of sadness

doleful = full of sadness

From somewhere, a skinny, mangy brown dog appeared dolefully and joined the kid.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

dolefully = full of sadness

She would stay in bed, wearing an old winter coat over her pajamas, a weary, doleful, unsmiling presence in the apartment.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

doleful = full of sadness

"I'll try to be a model pupil," agreed Anne dolefully.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

dolefully = full of sorrow

...the old man armed for war to take his soldiers forward, undeterred by doleful age.
Homer -- The Iliad

doleful = causing sadness

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