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单词 doleful
释义
dolefuldole‧ful /ˈdəʊlfəl $ ˈdoʊl-/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINdoleful
Origin:
1200-1300 dole ‘sadness’ (13-19 centuries), from Latin dolere ‘to be sad’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a doleful look
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Baudelaire curled up on the chintz sofa and looked doleful.
  • Everyman wasn't as comprehensive and incisive as it might have been, but it was an intriguing, doleful documentary none the less.
  • So it was doubly doleful to me.
  • There was never anything sophisticated or subtle about the doleful northerner but boy, could he make you laugh.
  • Yet the reading appeared to bring Emilia a kind of doleful peace.
very sad:  a doleful song about lost lovedolefully adverb
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