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mournfulness

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But this time, it is a mournfulness tinged with irony and flashes of wit.

“I have never been married,” he said, with an indefinable mournfulness in his flexible tones.

"Forget the 'Mr. Sherwood,' or you'll make me feel not at home in my own house," he begged with humorous mournfulness.

And, oh, the flatness and mournfulness of those chill wastes of snow outside the city!

I pictured myself being found dead in bed, having been extinct for hours and hours, and the mournfulness of it broke me all up.

"As if he cared," she says, with infinite mournfulness, yet obeying his hint all the same.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mournfulness, such as: anguish, bitterness, blues, catatonia, chagrin, and cheerlessness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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