Feeling mentally uncomfortable because something is missing or wrong.
1 And listening I could head a doleful pealing in the grey sky.
2 Having intoned the two lines the flock took up the doleful dirge.
3 Nor were they in this doleful condition allowed a sufficiency of water.
4 And so he put me here.' I gave Barak a doleful smile.
5 At last there came the long-drawn, doleful note of the screech owl.
6 Then he would face the crowd again, and repeat his doleful cry:
7 I could almost sigh at the very remembrance of that doleful Polonaise.
8 But probably the King would not visit that decayed and doleful spot.
9 The army entered the doleful solitude, hideous to sight, hideous to memory.
10 Pedro's face was doleful in the extreme, and not at all reassuring.
11 Somewhere about after that Merrifield niece with the doleful name, I fancy.
12 Had both gone, he would have had a doleful time of it.
13 A few emitted a doleful sort of sound almost like a cry.
14 Katrina sounded so doleful that he had to look up at her.
15 Somewhere a cloister bell was ringing, a lost and lonely, doleful sound.
16 Bosja felt it, and believing himself seriously wounded, uttered a doleful howl.
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