doleful
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When no one is around, the doleful ex-judge listens to Italian gangsta rap, and sometimes even raps along with it, suggesting he isn’t quite the stereotype others assume him to be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Set in the high-rises of the Cabrini-Green housing project in 1992, when the beleaguered complex’s decline was palpable, it sounds like a recipe for doleful poverty-gazing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2024
Shouldn’t all movies feature a disillusioned astrophysicist, particularly one as charmingly doleful as Stanfield’s character?
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2023
The music, like the story, became more openly emotional; for every cunning rondo, there was a doleful largo.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
Even that most doleful of Christian laments—“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”—sounded snappy and upbeat through these women’s windpipes as they sauntered along: “Nani oze mpasi zazo! Nani oze mpasi!”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing doleful
100 SAT Words Beginning with "D"
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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