Thesaurus / doleful
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They were a little wet and doleful looking, but llamas were bred to withstand the brutal weather of the Andes.
WANT TO TRAVEL IN THE BACKCOUNTRY WITH SMALL CHILDREN? RENT A LLAMA.LWHELANSEPTEMBER 17, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEBut the business of most of them that fared this way whose faring has been preserved was of a very doleful character.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERWhen his disciple had finished the solemn and doleful phrase, he smiled while looking round.
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMASSome of the animals suffered so with thirst that they could not graze, and uttered doleful whinneys of distress.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTPerhaps it was this doleful, ominous sound more than anything else that somehow took the enthusiasm out of them.
THE RIVAL CAMPERS AFLOATRUEL PERLEY SMITHAnd no wonder, for of all the doleful too-tooings ever uttered by wind instrument, this was the dolefullest.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNGHe could not think how the summer days had slipped away, and grew doleful as he remembered how few of them now remained.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSBosja felt it, and believing himself seriously wounded, uttered a doleful howl.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNGBruno could make nothing whatever of it, so he found relief in doleful howls.
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONTNigel had soon enough of the doleful tales which the book contains, and attempted one or two other modes of killing the evening.
THE FORTUNES OF NIGELSIR WALTER SCOTTWORDS RELATED TO DOLEFUL
- afflictive
- awful
- bad
- calamitous
- deplorable
- dire
- dirty
- distressing
- doleful
- dolorous
- god-awful
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- hurting
- lousy
- low
- lugubrious
- meager
- mean
- melancholy
- mournful
- pitiful
- plaintive
- poor
- regretful
- rotten
- rueful
- sad
- sorrowful
- stinking
- tragic
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unsatisfactory
- woeful
- wretched
- blue
- dejected
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- doleful
- dolorous
- down
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downbeat
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- droopy
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- grim
- heavy-hearted
- in blue funk
- joyless
- lachrymose
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- mirthless
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- mournful
- pensive
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- sorry
- torn-up
- trite
- unhappy
- wet blanket
- wistful
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- ailing
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- brokenhearted
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- doleful
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- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurt
- hurting
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- in pain
- injured
- melancholy
- mournful
- not happy
- on a downer
- pained
- pathetic
- pitiable
- racked
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick
- sickly
- sorrowful
- strained
- suffering
- tormented
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- tragic
- troubled
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- woebegone
- wounded
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- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- cross
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
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