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mournfully

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mourn·ful  (môrnfl, mrn-)
adj.
1. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
2. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy: the mournful sound of a train whistle.

mournful·ly adv.
mournful·ness n.
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Adv.1.mournfully - in a mournful manner; "the young man stared into his glass mournfully"
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mournfully [ˈmɔːnfəlɪ] ADVtristemente
mournfully
adv (= sadly)traurig, trauervoll; wail, cryklagend
mournfully [ˈmɔːnfəlɪ] adv (gaze, speak) → tristemente, malinconicamente


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Mournfully and low the man of God began his eulogy of the dead, and his doleful voice, mingled with the sobbing which it was its purpose to stimulate and sustain, rose and fell, seemed to come and go, like the sound of a sullen sea.
Pollyanna looked at her for a moment with mournfully interested eyes; then she sighed:
A whole sequence of new thoughts, hopeless but mournfully pleasant, rose in his soul in connection with that tree.
 
 
 
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