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as in mournful
expressing or suggesting mourning
adopted a sorrowful tone of voice to read the news story about the former governor's death
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as in sad
feeling unhappiness
the cult seemed to be a sorrowful assemblage of emotionally scarred people seeking love and redemption
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Recent Examples of sorrowful
Miss Petersen was by then sitting at her desk, her hands grasping the table as if to steady herself and her subtle tears were now pure sorrowful crying.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time — one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.
—Austin Curtright, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
His samples are full of vibrating guitars, sorrowful organs, and cascading drums.
—Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2024
One popular tale involves a woman who lost her child in the woods whose sorrowful spirit is said to still roam the trail.
—Paula Conway, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time — one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.
—Austin Curtright, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
His samples are full of vibrating guitars, sorrowful organs, and cascading drums.
—Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2024
One popular tale involves a woman who lost her child in the woods whose sorrowful spirit is said to still roam the trail.
—Paula Conway, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorrowful
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Her observations as a woman once romantically involved with the two of them at the same time, confirm their masculine inability to speak their feelings out loud unless they are veiled in mournful songs.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Very few directors working today can put across a movie like Gladiator II as convincingly, which perhaps explains why the sequel — for all its barbaric violence and the plaintive, at times stirring, discussions about justice and democracy — doesn’t have the mournful quality that the first film did.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Concept art revealed at D23 also showed the gang of toys — such as Jessie the yodeling cowgirl (voiced by different actresses) and Rex (Wallace Shawn) — looking sad as their owner seemed more interested in a tablet, hinting at their emotional yet humorous struggles.Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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What a pathetic way for that portion of my career to end, with a sad little slow-motion tumble in the 64th minute of a miserable 3-2 defeat by Romania.Alan Shearer, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
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Some artists and publishers are unhappy with the way their content is being scraped freely by companies like OpenAI and Google to train their large language models — AI models trained on huge quantities of data to generate humanlike responses.Ryan Browne, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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Cronin — who had to cancel some summer shows this year due to unspecified health issues — further acknowledges that there’s acrimony between he and Hall, and he’s been unhappy with some of the social media discourse blaming him for the end of the REO Speedwagon name.Gary Graff, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
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Willow Avalon The metaphorical equivalent of a heartbroken singer-songwriter debutante ball is attacking live stages and streaming platforms in overwhelming waves.Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
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However, our team is heartbroken to know these new horses have been without proper food and care for so long.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, workers in the Bayou State are some of the most depressed in the nation, reporting a happiness index of 34.81.Therese Boudreaux | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Dec. 2024
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When Do Da-hae (The 8 Show’s Chun Woo-hee), a seemingly demure con artist with designs on the Bok’s riches, starts to flirt with him, a struggling Gwi-ju is too depressed to care.Kayti Burt, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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Dido, after her lover Aeneas deserts her, kills herself with his sword on a funeral pyre, but not before building an effigy of him to burn alongside her.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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The Associated Press reported that the funeral location was not made public in advance to prevent a large crowd from gathering.Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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But the show still needing to spotlight Winston says it all about the state of the Browns, and all involved just need this miserable season to end.The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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An actually funny Joker movie outclassed Joaquin Phoenix’s miserable one, and the biggest theater story of the year was an audacious, bawdy farce from a crazed comic genius.Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Sorrowful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorrowful. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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