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Dole·ful a. Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
With screwed face and doleful whine. --South.
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. --Milton.
Syn: -- Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad gloomy; dismal; dolorous; woe-begone.
-- Dole*ful*ly, adv. -- Dole*ful*ness, n.
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dolefully
adv : with sadness; in a sorrowful manner; "his mother looked at
him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army"
[syn: sorrowfully]