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plaintive
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    She meant it for his ears alone but Hannah was close enough to him to hear every plaintive syllable.  (source)
    plaintive = sorrowful or pleading
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    "Jordan, what should I do?" Monique asked plaintively.  (source)
    plaintively = in a sad manner
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    "I don't want no trouble," he said plaintively. "Don't let him sock me, George."  (source)
    plaintively = in a pleading manner (almost begging)
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    ...whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty: though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold. 'Things flow about so here!' she said at last in a plaintive tone,  (source)
    plaintive = expressing sorrow or pleading
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    "I want to go home, Peeta," I say plaintively, like a small child.†  (source)
    plaintively = in a sad manner
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    Now jokiness had made way for melodrama, or plaintiveness.†  (source)
    plaintiveness = sadness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    I listened to their song, distant and plaintive.  (source)
    plaintive = sad
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    The cage bars slid down, and the goat remained tethered in the center of the field, bleating plaintively.†  (source)
    plaintively = in a sad manner
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    And yet, majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was for ever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.†  (source)
    plaintiveness = sadness
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    It was a lovely, plaintive sound, like a note from a faraway home.†  (source)
    plaintive = sad
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    "But I thought he liked me," she said plaintively.†  (source)
    plaintively = in a sad manner
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    It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and such plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy air, that it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent valleys of the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns.†  (source)
    plaintiveness = sadness
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    He lifted one arm toward Louie, a plaintive expression on his face.†  (source)
    plaintive = sad
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