doomful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- doomfully adverb
Etymology
Origin of doomful
Example Sentences
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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
When the question is asked of experts, answers range from Pollyannaish to doomful.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Mine is the crime, who ought with clearer light To watch the winged years' incessant flight; And not to slumber on in dull delay Till circling seasons bring the doomful day.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
Once I heard a man telling of a doomful hour in which his fortune won by years of hard work, broke and vanished like a bubble.
From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving
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