doomful
Example Sentences
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The city remains safe; the lawless crack-and-squeegee days, for all the wishful predictions of Mr. de Blasio’s most dogged, doomful critics, have not returned.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2016
Not since Korea's bleakest days has the draft loomed quite so doomful in the eyes of high school and college graduates.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When the question is asked of experts, answers range from Pollyannaish to doomful.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Once I heard a man telling of a doomful hour in which his fortune won by years of hard work, broke and vanished like a bubble.
From The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller
At last somebody said, with a doomful sigh— 'Well, yonder's Hat Island—and we can't make it.'
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. by Mark Twain