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doomful

[doom-fuhl] / ˈdum fəl /




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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

When the question is asked of experts, answers range from Pollyannaish to doomful.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Mine is the crime, who ought with clearer light To watch the winged years' incessant flight; And not to slumber on in dull delay Till circling seasons bring the doomful day.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell

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




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