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doleful
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  • Glick nodded dolefully.  (source)
    dolefully = full of sadness
  • 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)
  • She would stay in bed, wearing an old winter coat over her pajamas, a weary, doleful, unsmiling presence in the apartment.  (source)
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  • She looked sort of doleful.  (source)
    doleful = full of sadness
  • his mind began dolefully telling him that he was on a wild goose chase.  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    undolefully = without sadness
    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.
  • "Guess everybody knows it's not going too good," he says with a doleful laugh and passes it across to her.  (source)
    doleful = sad
  • "Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."  (source)
    dolefully = sadly
  • Straight all the mother in her soul awakes, And, owning her Ulysses, thus she speaks; 'Comest thou, my son, alive, to realms beneath, The dolesome realms of darkness and of death!†  (source)
  • Her mother's doleful rhythm followed them everywhere.  (source)
    doleful = expressing or causing sadness
  • From somewhere, a skinny, mangy brown dog appeared dolefully and joined the kid.  (source)
    dolefully = full of sadness
  • And now begin the dolesome notes to grow Audible unto me; now am I come There where much lamentation strikes upon me.†  (source)
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