Words similar to mournful

Example sentences for: mournful

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That is the mournful keening you hear these days from about half the folks in Washington.
It's infused with a mournful 1950s-era Existentialism, and Paz's French influence pushes him into abstraction.
After reinstalling and receiving increasingly mournful error messages ("Unable to go on," "Floating point exception") and another core dump, we called it quits.
His mournful performance ennobles Benton's conception without enlivening it.
Today's Washington Post ran a mournful headline that read, "Hundreds Are Killed, Millions Left Homeless by Asian Floods."