All 11 Uses
wistful
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Sons and Lovers
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- There was the halt, the wistfulness about the ensuing year, which is like autumn in a man's life.†
Chpt 1.3wistfulness = full of longing or unfulfilled desire
- Then he looked wistfully out of the window.†
Chpt 1.5wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
- "It'll help, mother?" he asked wistfully.†
Chpt 1.5
- Paul she eyed rather wistfully.†
Chpt 2.7
- And the wistfulness of his voice was like a reaching to something, and it was as if she were what he reached with.
Chpt 2.9 *wistfulness = full of longing or unfulfilled desire
- You'll make the best of it," he continued rather wistfully.†
Chpt 2.10wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
- Afterwards he said wistfully: "She never thought she'd have me, mother, not from the first, and so she's not disappointed."†
Chpt 2.11
- She had almost a wistful look, almost resigned.†
Chpt 2.12
- And he loved her as she balanced her head and stared straight in front of her, pouting, wistful, immobile, as if she yielded herself to her fate because it was too strong for her.†
Chpt 2.12
- A kind of eternal look about her, as if she were a wistful sphinx, made it necessary for him to kiss her.†
Chpt 2.12
- "I wonder why nurse didn't come to settle me down?" complained the mother, like a child, wistfully.†
Chpt 2.14wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
Definitions:
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(1)
(wistful) showing longing or unfulfilled desire
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)