mournfulness
- a word derived from mournful.
Example Sentences
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I'm glad they weren't, to be clear, because the implication lent more of a mournfulness to the whole passage both for the spy and for The Captain.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
Played live under the big screen on Saturday at the Philadelphia Film Center, this grinding score occasionally lightens for moments of mellower mournfulness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
In a plaintive tweet that scored high on the mournfulness scale, the team said “it once was a bright, bright sunshiny day . . . ”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022
My admiration for the excellence of the writing was tinged with mournfulness for a writer who deserved better in her lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
“But that part must not have worked so well. They all still suffer from that pesky ‘chronic mournfulness effect.’”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
