doleful
adjective
sorrowful; mournful; melancholy.
dolefulness
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a word derived from
doleful.
Example Sentences
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It looked like a snow angel, but also like a mummy — an image of both levity and dolefulness, neither all good nor all bad.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
But in “The Night Stages” it arrives late, and Ms. Urquhart’s unremitting dolefulness has already deadened our nerve endings to the heartache she wants to conjure.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2015
Where the network’s “True Detective” occasionally broke its dolefulness with the slyest, philosophically artful wink at an audience riveted by its mystery, “The Leftovers” grafts more unhappiness onto unhappiness.
From Washington Post
It was a very ordinary tale, and its dolefulness was relieved by the old man's delight at finding people who could talk to him like Christians.
From The House of Martha by Frank Richard Stockton
My rendering of the famous ballad had, in consequence, acquired a dolefulness not intended by the composer.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
