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dolefully

/dohl-fuhl/US // ˈdoʊl fəl //UK // (ˈdəʊlfʊl) //

怅然若失,怅然若失地,孜孜不倦地,孜孜不倦

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.

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Examples

  • "Our people have been wiped away," Running Crow cried, dolefully, as he rode his frightened pony into the camp.

  • "My flute that cost me twenty-five pounds only a week since," he wailed dolefully.

  • "This is a pretty go," said Harry Girdwood, dolefully, as he looked round him.

  • Dolefully they wished that a sober Lancashire would come to Llanyglo; but—a Lancashire of some sort they must have.

  • "Not while they have possession of the boys," Canfield declared, dolefully.