dolorous
Example Sentences
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Still, few poems are more famous than “The Raven” with its dolorous tocsin, “Nevermore.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2021
My Quichotte is not dolorous of countenance, but cheerful; an optimist, hopeful, believing in love.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019
To wit: Sam Smith performed his new ballad “Pray” on Sunday night, but it was dolorous until the backing choir arrived to uplift him at the first chorus.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2018
Sleep-deprived and dolorous in nostalgia, I’d reverted to my old role as the gloomy one.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2016
He pursued this dolorous inquiry, asking how one might again find someone shipped off down there.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing dolorous
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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