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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And none were braver in the tented field, Like lightning heralding the doomful bolt; The enemy beheld his snowy plume, And death-lights flashed along his glancing spear.

From Poems by Holley, Marietta

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 Twain, Mark