Translations for „doleful“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

doleful [ˈdəʊlfl, Am ˈdoʊl-] ADJ

doleful person

гру́стный

doleful expression

страда́льческий

doleful cry

ско́рбный

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

There was a giant, sorrowful, unsurprised exhale, and then much doleful staring into space.

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Dragged along by a pack of dogs, they kick sand in the faces of a pair of doleful white men buried up to their necks.

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A 1933 publication also describes them as a particularly clumsy instrument emitting a doleful and monotonous sound.

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The accordion might be associated with doleful buskers and punishing polkas.

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The theme is doleful, but it is arguably a realistic point of view.

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Why has this become our doleful new reality?

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She lives alone with her doleful father, who is a dutiful member of the town church.

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The pressure created to perform, forces them to commit more errors and the results are what we see, ignominious and doleful.

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He settled there for most of the rest of his life and gained a reputation as a painter of doleful, lovely women.

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The mood is doleful and sad, love and marriage are the prevailing topics in them.

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