All 5 Uses of
plaintive
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- She blinked up out of her avid shameclosing eyes, mewing plaintively and long, showing him her milkwhite teeth.†
Chpt 4 *plaintively = in a sad manner
- he said plaintively.†
Chpt 10
- His breath, birdsweet, good teeth he's proud of, fluted with plaintive woe.†
Chpt 11plaintive = sad
- A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.†
Chpt 12
- BLOOM: (Plaintively) Hugeness!†
Chpt 15plaintively = in a sad manner
Definition:
expressing sadness -- sometimes with a plea for help