dolorous
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Race features prominently in “Butts,” including the disturbing, dolorous history of Sarah Baartman, a Khoe woman from South Africa whose ample backside became a freak-show spectacle in London in 1810.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022
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
This, it is gradually transpiring, is a very characteristic Nighy interview quote, in that it is dolorous, painfully self-deprecating and makes rather heavy weather of the business of acting.
From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2017
Sleep-deprived and dolorous in nostalgia, I’d reverted to my old role as the gloomy one.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2016
She was slumped over and her face was dolorous.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Vocabulary lists containing dolorous
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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