sadsome

comparative more sadsome · superlative most sadsome

1. Characterised or marked by sadness.

   Give you a sadsome tune, / Sung inside a tiring wing.

   1968, Kenneth Patchen, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen

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   Our little heroes gazed with pain and sadsome sorrow, too, upon a sight their merry eyes could scarce believe was true.

   1915, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, volume 43, page 48

   O gladsome, O sadsome, O jingle O jangle, / the air grows thin as we get to the top — / 0 wingsong a thingsong, / heaven's kettle is humming.

   1996, Mary Caroline Richards, Deborah J. Haynes, Opening Our Moral Eye

   Meronym's griefsome face jus' said, Nay, she's too far gone I can't do nothin', an' she kissed my sis's forehead g'bye, walked back sadsome into the rain.

   2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN