doomfullyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

doomfully (comparative more doomfully, superlative most doomfully)

1. In a doomful manner.
   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (2010 Random House edition), ISBN 9780307743992, p. 570 (Google preview):

     And high above me now the bridge seemed to move of to where I could not see, striding like a robot, an iron man, whose iron legs clanged doomfully as it moved.

   • 1955, Edgar Maass, The Magnificent Enemies, page 273:

     But the old fisherman who followed her up the stairs again shook his head doomfully. "There's no use trying to hold them off," he said. "They'll just ram in the door. Then they'll slaughter the lot of us. I know them."

   • 2004 April 20, Guy Trebay, "To Be Young in SoHo and Armed With Plastic," New York Times (retrieved 25 March 2014):

     [T]he artist Richard Serra once stood at the corner of Broadway and Spring Street and doomfully predicted to the museum curator Marcia Tucker that "one day this will all be boutiques."

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