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Doleful
Doleful meaning
Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
Example sentences (7)
My parents were over 40 when I was born, so the ruminations were usually doleful.
Nate’s colorfully symphonic electronic production emphasizes joy and euphoria, so that even his cousin’s yearnsome singing and doleful lyrics manage to communicate wary optimism.
In the communist case, government censorship offices exclude anything negative about socialism, with doleful consequences for anyone who persists.
Examples include "When the Foeman bares his steel" (The Pirates of Penzance), "In a doleful train" (Patience) and "Welcome, gentry" (Ruddigore).
From my doleful prison in the Tower, this sixth of May; Your most loyal and ever faithful wife, Anne Boleyn" Four of the accused men were tried in Westminster on 12 May 1536.
Gallois, p. 368 The work contrasts a "doleful threnody " in the slow movement with the finale, which "pirouettes in 4/4 time", in a style reminiscent of the 18th century.
Henry VII is shown receiving the book containing the manuscript in mourning robes with a doleful expression on his face.