Dolorously
Dolorously adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: another country singer wailing dolorously about the faithless woman who done him wrong
Painfully and dolorously are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Painfully" instead an adverb "Dolorously".
Painfully
Painfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: painfully she recounted the years of physical abuse she had received at his hands
Dolorously and painfully are semantically related. You can use "Dolorously" instead an adverb "Painfully".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and dolorously
- hard and painfully
- hardly and dolorously
- hardly and painfully
- harshly and dolorously
- harshly and painfully
- cruelly and dolorously
- cruelly and painfully
- severely and dolorously
- severely and painfully
- agonizingly and dolorously
- agonizingly and painfully
- bitterly and dolorously
- bitterly and painfully
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