The word 'dolefully' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adverb that means in a sorrowful or mournful manner. Example sentence: The young widow gazed dolefully at her husband's picture, tears streaming down her face.
That labrador actually has a role in The First Men in the Moon, looking dolefully skywards as his master's spaceship disappears.
As a Fatah man dolefully puts it, "only one side has the guns".
They also fight Mr Drummond they defeated his efforts to curb council tax rises.The threatened closure of a local hospital dominated a recent meeting and, he says dolefully: "They all seemed to be blaming me".
Palmer said dolefully to his wife: "I believe I have been ill-used and unjustly neglected as an artist, as well as in many other ways".
His effort to remove Pakistan's chief judge, Iftikhar Chaudhry, was only the latest example.The reasoning behind the move was dolefully obvious.
He should have died, but instead "sagaciously he dolefully held on".
It's a very complex set of balls in the air," he says.Pacific history an underdeveloped field of study compared with that of the Atlantic, as its scholars dolefully note is awash with big-power rivalries (see next article).
Because his efforts, though well-aimed, are intermittent, often insubstantial and, as such, dolefully indicative of Britain's gadfly prime minister.It is not as if the Tories underestimate the scale of their task: right-wing think-tanks write about the problem endlessly.
By Mr Kerry's timetable, the chimes will ring out dolefully at the end of this month (see article).
The media, much of which relies on companies close to the government for advertising revenue, rarely investigate corruption, he notes".The situation has not been so difficult since 2000," says a source close to government dolefully, the year when Slobodan Milosevic was toppled from power.
The Great Book of Baby Names had been dolefully cast aside.
