Thesaurus / plaintiveness
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How to use plaintiveness in a sentence
It will only plead at first to my friends in the still conscious plaintiveness of a young and unhardened beggar.
CLARISSA, VOLUME 6 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSONMrs. Snows face looked unusually lined and set; in spite of her plaintiveness, her eyes had a harassed glitter.
THE WAYFARERSMARY STEWART CUTTINGAnother remarkable quality of the song is a union of brilliancy and plaintiveness.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY , VOLUME 2, NO. 14, DECEMBER 1858VARIOUSIndeed, his song is very strong for so small a bird, and unites in a remarkable degree brilliancy and plaintiveness.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 17, NO. 104, JUNE, 1866VARIOUSBut a note of plaintiveness crept into his voice: success was boring him, he had no further goals to shoot for.
STARMAN'S QUESTROBERT SILVERBERGThey are not so recently out of the woods, and their strains have not that elusiveness and plaintiveness that ours have.
FRESH FIELDSJOHN BURROUGHSShe said it almost as if she wished she did; and the childish plaintiveness in her voice moved him deeply.
THE HONOUR OF THE CLINTONSARCHIBALD MARSHALLMuch of it is in minor keys, and a strain of plaintiveness mingles with all its majesty and power.
MY NATIVE LANDJAMES COXHis voice was hollow and tremulous to plaintiveness; but she took heart from its exceeding, if mournful, gentleness.
JESSAMINEMARION HARLANDMrs. Snow's face looked unusually lined and set; in spite of her plaintiveness, her eyes had a harassed glitter.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOL 31, NO 2, JUNE 1908VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO PLAINTIVENESS
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