dolefulness
- 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
To add to the dolefulness of the former day, and the dismalness of the present night, my thoughts ran upon my losses and sad bereaved condition.
From Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Rowlandson, Mary White
There had never been so little laughter and so much dolefulness in the Land of the Wymps.
From All the Way to Fairyland Fairy Stories by Sharp, Evelyn
