dolorousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dolorousness
Noun
  • Power Ballad should be breezy and fun, with that twist of mournfulness that Carney is always so adept at pulling off.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Army of Shadows doesn’t have a TX but the team will be keen to get it out quickly in order to tap into a local and global feeling of political discontent.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 3 July 2026
  • But AfD has long become adept at harnessing discontent with issues well beyond its signature theme of curbing migration, which powered its rise in the mid-2010s.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Thankfully, naked dressing is not only acceptable, but considered very in line with today's fashion trends—and the sheer skirt is the antidote to your summer woes.
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • German politicians vowed Monday to prevent Volkswagen from cutting 100,000 jobs, as Berlin confronts the scale of the country’s industrial woes.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Her concept of gravity draws on both East and West, on karma and original sin.
    Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • The probe was delayed from 2022, and headed for the asteroid Psyche, using a Mars-gravity assist and not arriving until August 2029.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Experts say that the biggest challenge at that extreme level of blackness is actually measuring it.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 June 2026
  • Hawthorne mostly succeeds at keeping the blackness in check in this foray into YA.
    John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Critical infrastructure must assume persistent aerial observation as a baseline condition of operations, and operators must rehearse drone incidents with the same seriousness as cyberattacks or active shooter scenarios.
    Bill Edwards, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Far from being disengaged from the city’s fiscal challenges, residents demonstrated a clear understanding of the seriousness of this issue to the future of Chicago.
    Karen Freeman-Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Lynn told me that Colson shared his father’s moodiness, if not his stifling conservatism.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • There’s a fine line between creating moodiness and making a space feel suffocating.
    Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 4 June 2026
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“Dolorousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dolorousness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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