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
Indeed all I have been doing was to get him to moderate his dolefulness.
From The Pillars of the House, V1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
It was worse; for the dolefulness was positive here, which before in the broad open country was only negative.
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
