doomy
This place was known doomily to the locals as "Place of Death".
"No prisoner has ever escaped from this dungeon," the character pronounces doomily.
He stood on the bridge, staring doomily down into the swirling brown water.
They looked up at the doomily grey walls of the castle.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people sad, shocked and upset
aback
amiss
appal
be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom
bite
bum
haunt
heartbreaker
heartbreakingly
hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
horrify
nerve
self-laceration
sensitivity
shake someone out of something
shake someone up
shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom
shattering
tear
toxic