adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a doleful look
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Baudelaire curled up on the chintz sofa and looked doleful .
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Everyman wasn't as comprehensive and incisive as it might have been, but it was an intriguing, doleful documentary none the less.
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So it was doubly doleful to me.
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There was never anything sophisticated or subtle about the doleful northerner but boy, could he make you laugh.
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Yet the reading appeared to bring Emilia a kind of doleful peace.