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- adjective Full of
sadness ;sorrowful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Future is hopeful as to her in her thinking and her story is a bit sadful and dreadful for the people in India.
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Sometimes you very funny, but sometimes when moon specks slip through big pine-tree, I see you very sadful.
Little Sister Snow Frances Little 1902
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She warn't particular; she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was sadful.
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She warn't particular; she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was sadful.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20 Mark Twain 1872
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She warn't particular; she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was sadful.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
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There was something in it, I can't tell you what, that looked so sadful.
The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. First Series 1845
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She warn’t particular; she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was sadful.
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