dolefulness

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Noun
  • Not the murder, not the arrival of the addicted sister, but the removal of the boy that has been at the core of so much sorrow and betrayal between the sisters.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 June 2025
  • Referencing the push and pull between sorrow and hope, Echakhch transforms water into a metaphor for emotional duality.
    Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Composting locations don’t need to be perfectly level, but selecting a spot that doesn’t have any significant inclines or depressions makes compost piles much easier to manage.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2025
  • However, the series main character, Mi-ji, has been able to move past the depression that kept her from chasing her ambitions for years.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • After the trial and sentencings, a noose of grief tightened around the DuFresne family.
    Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2025
  • The 90-minute, time-hopping play weaves facts with fiction and contemporary tragedy with an ancient Greek poem in the moving and often funny story of one woman’s 20-year cycle of grief and recovery.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Drawing heavily from Qiu’s biography, My Father’s Son centers on an 18-year-old protagonist, Qiao, who loses his voice while attempting to deliver the eulogy at his father’s funeral and flees in anguish.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
  • Many of us watch in anguish as our compatriots abandon their homes, desperate for a safe haven beyond the reach of oppression and destruction.
    Nazanin Boniadi, Time, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Labor Day is suffused with a certain melancholy at the end of summer and children are already back in school.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
  • That betrayal, like so many others, fed the melancholy in Brian's music.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 15 June 2025
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“Dolefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dolefulness. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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