Dolefully
['dəulfuli]
Definition
(adv.) with sadness; in a sorrowful manner; 'his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army'.
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Examples
- I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mrs. Trenor shook her head dolefully. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Rather a stately house of its kind, but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This yer young-un business makes lots of trouble in the trade, said Haley, dolefully. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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