doomful
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The city remains safe; the lawless crack-and-squeegee days, for all the wishful predictions of Mr. de Blasio’s most dogged, doomful critics, have not returned.
From Washington Times • Aug. 3, 2016
Not since Korea's bleakest days has the draft loomed quite so doomful in the eyes of high school and college graduates.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the question is asked of experts, answers range from Pollyannaish to doomful.
From Time Magazine Archive
Think what a volley: reverberating doomful to the four corners of Paris, and through all hearts; like the clang of Bellona's thongs!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Then burn my dreams: in care my soul is drown'd and dead, Black, heavy thoughts come thronging o'er me; Remembrance then unfolds, with finger slow and dread, Her long and doomful scroll before me.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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