Thesaurus / plaintive
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All three of those things, and more era-specific delights, are right there in Wright’s movie, as if he had read my own plaintive childhood desires and put them onscreen.
EDGAR WRIGHT'S 1960S FEVER DREAM LAST NIGHT IN SOHO IS A HALF-BRILLIANT THRILLERSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKSEPTEMBER 4, 2021TIMEFrom higher up, at the level of the hidden bed, came the regular plaintive respiration of Sarah Gailey.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTThere is nothing like a plaintive retort when your case is utterly indefensible.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThe music grew strange and fantastic—turbulent, insistent, plaintive and soft with entreaty.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINFor Sara Lee's statement that she could manage would draw forth a plaintive burst from the older woman.
THE AMAZING INTERLUDEMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTIn one such startled interval of waking her caged cricket had given out its plaintive cry.
THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSAShe showed the kitten to Eric, handling its tiny paws gently, hushing its plaintive mews with ridiculous pet names.
THE MEDICI BOOTSPEARL NORTON SWETIts plaintive, monotonous murmur sometimes impressed the mind with sadness.
CHARLES DURANTHE AUTHOR OF THE WALDOSI hear and feel the cool, rustling wind, like a plaintive requiem over the dead.
REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES BRADLAUGHGEORGE W. FOOTETravellers have described these animals by the name of weepers, from their plaintive moan.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME IX (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFONWORDS RELATED TO PLAINTIVE
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
- affecting
- afflicted
- dejected
- depressed
- disconsolate
- distressing
- doleful
- dolent
- full of sorrow
- grievous
- heart-wrenching
- heartbroken
- heartrending
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in mourning
- in pain
- in sorrow
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- miserable
- mournful
- painful
- piteous
- plaintive
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick at heart
- singing the blues
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- unhappy
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- afflicted
- agonized
- anguished
- appalling
- awful
- bad
- calamitous
- catastrophic
- cruel
- deplorable
- disappointing
- disastrous
- disconsolate
- disgraceful
- distressing
- doleful
- dreadful
- feeble
- gloomy
- grieving
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- heartsick
- hopeless
- inadequate
- lamentable
- lousy
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- plaintive
- poor
- racked
- rotten
- shocking
- sorrowful
- sorry
- tortured
- tragic
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- wretched
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