Plaintively is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLAINTIVELY in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• PLAINTIVE, mournful, querulous
• in a plaintive manner
• something done in a sad or mournful way.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• expressive of suffering or wo; melancholy

Words related to PLAINTIVELY

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How to use PLAINTIVELY in a sentence

• He sat plaintively sawing upon his ancient but rich-toned violin while the floor was brushed, the chairs and benches pushed against the wall and the room prepared for action.
• He stumbled blindly, heavily, as he went, and the crying of the wheeling sea-gulls came plaintively through a silence that could be felt.
• And he sank into a sort of second childhood, clasping his hands and stammering plaintively, terrified, and beseeching compassion, like one whose sufferings are too hard to bear.
• As dusk came on, he would every now and then howl plaintively.
• He frowned plaintively, wishing he could think of some polite way of asking her to go away.
• A dozen yards beyond it coughed again, feebly, plaintively, then it expired.
• How the old time sang sorrowfully back, plaintively, piteously.
• The corners of its mouth were drooping plaintively.
• In these days the disease of fame and artistic achievement only sang monotonously, plaintively, like the wind in the valleys where the wind never wholly rests.
• It seemed like a delicious joke to her that he should be calling so plaintively for his phoebe, not knowing that there was a Phoebe on the premises all the while.
• At the rumble of the barrow, however, this ancient being choked upon a snore, coughed, swore plaintively, and finally sat up.
• Still she plaintively calls her name, and still she wears the necklace about her pretty little neck.
• He went alone, after his wife had plaintively sighed her refusal to accompany him.
• Suddenly, from the shadows of the long road, a voice rose plaintively.
• Liza plaintively asked whether anyone else had been, and sighed a little when her mother answered no.
• Argenter read it over and over, and wished plaintively that she could go out to Denver, and be near her friend.
• One day when I was eating my lunch near a fountain, there came up a moody, meditative hen, crooning plaintively after her wont.
• The flock had begun to lag, and the younger sheep were bleating plaintively.
• Senter got the look in her eyes of one who has stood too long in high-heeled boots, and Emily asked plaintively whether we were not going to see the Glastonbury Thorn.
• Gradually I got up, in the middle of the men who had relapsed into childhood, and were awkwardly beginning again, or plaintively complaining in their beds.
• Behind him, in the stern of the canoe, Brass Pan scratched himself plaintively.
• As this work is done only a few days in the year, the dogs do not become accustomed to it, and howl plaintively at every point of the compass.
• And Monsieur plaintively fixed his eyes on the black crape upon his hat.
• And the piano once more, in turn, called plaintively on love.
• The organ was pealing softly and plaintively, and the little gray coat seemed to heave as with a sob.
• From the above it will readily be seen, as Schindler plaintively asserts, that the office of friend to Beethoven was no sinecure.
• All the night long the cypresses hissed over his head and plaintively thumped the door, letting in the cold, greedy desert.
• Some one was talking Russian hurriedly, plaintively, and incomprehensibly.
• Dropping weakly upon a chair, she added her sobs to those of Fanny, which had begun to break plaintively upon the tragic silence.

Similar words containing PLAINTIVE without suffix ly

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