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Meanings of doleful in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "sad"
Examples for "sad"
1
It's a sad statement about the state of political freedom in Burma.
2
As for the proposed penalty point system, this is the sad history.
3
There was a second, final sentence: TN I shall be sad, though.
4
ANSWER: It's understandable that you feel sad and jealous in this situation.
5
At least he got a good rate of interest.' A sad chuckle.
1
Ms Young said the council had become an unhappy place, lacking leadership.
2
Charmaine is unhappy about the work being done at her neighbours' house.
3
Some small shareholders have said they were unhappy with the new terms.
4
The truth is Harry had been unhappy for a long, long time.
5
Thus, of course, the preference of novelists and dramatists for unhappy families.
1
The words of the first monologue were very mournful; they began with:
2
His mournful eyes turned in the direction indicated and devoured the scene.
3
Full of these mournful ideas, he repeated the following verse of Homer:
4
The latter said nothing, and all the others stared in mournful silence.
5
She was everywhere in this mournful house in which he secluded himself.
1
He was returning to a flat in the dolorous edifice of civilisation.
2
The rest of the house presented an equally dolorous and forsaken appearance.
3
The dolorous music of the band filled her with a gentle ecstasy.
4
At this Pierre could not refrain from a dolorous and vivacious interruption.
5
Then she gazed out before her, with a feeling of dolorous surprise.
Usage of doleful in английском
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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Doleful through the time
Doleful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare