wailer
Example Sentences
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Way is a lauded wailer, but his growl is just as potent.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
All that was left was to see if this leonine wailer could get on board with the direction Page wanted to go.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2018
For many Nixon-haters, he is the character Rip Torn excoriated in Blind Ambition, or the mad wailer incarnated by Philip Baker Hall in Robert Altman’s Secret Honor.
From Time ● Aug. 9, 2014
LaVette the soul wailer singing oldies-but-goodies by the Beatles?
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2010
Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, Blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, Shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, Sniffler, snuffler, wailer, weeper, Earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
