Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a doleful manner; sorrowfully; dismally; sadly.
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- adverb In a
doleful manner
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- adverb with sadness; in a sorrowful manner
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Examples
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What I mostly thought last night, sentimentally and dolefully, is that now I'm the parents and, really, so is the show.
Archive 2007-11-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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What I mostly thought last night, sentimentally and dolefully, is that now I'm the parents and, really, so is the show.
Another Phone Call from the Past Roger Sutton 2007
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All the night was tenantless but for themselves and some birds that called dolefully in the woods.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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Lambs, trailing behind, called dolefully to the plunging ewes that trampled each other in their terror.
Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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But Paris looks coldly on me without your eye in its head, and not being able to shake your hand I shake my own head dolefully, which is but poor satisfaction.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841
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A straggly, hand-puppet beast – a one-time mighty cucumber-lifter – sits dolefully in a rocking chair in his cosy cardboard box, indulging in a death scene as protracted as a Victorian melodrama.
Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival – review Susannah Clapp 2010
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I mean, is not conventional Christian teleology dolefully misanthropic by definition?
Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network 2010
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I mean, is not conventional Christian teleology dolefully misanthropic by definition?
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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Another remarks dolefully, Everybody dies of life.
Deals 2010
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Another remarks dolefully, Everybody dies of life.
A Letter from the Editor on Andrey Platonov (and a sale) 2009
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