doleful

/dˈə‍ʊlfə‍l/

/ˈdoʊɫfəɫ/

[adjective]

doleful

[ADJECTIVE]

filled with grief and sorrow

synonyms : mournful

Examples

1. This is supposed to be a doleful mystery.

2. And the Welsh were singing their ballads, and the Germans were singing doleful Lutheran hymns, and the Catholic French were singing this and that.

3. The leash is taut, her doleful eyes transfixed as she lifts her snout to heaven, every imaginable taste almost in her mouth.

4. And then the patients started drifting in, and they're all quite overweight and wearing sweatpants and shuffling, and they had sort of doleful eyes.