All 5 Uses
plaintive
in
The Demolished Man
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- He was in the kitchen, checking over the refreshment-dials in preparation for the party, whistling a plaintive, crooked tune.†
Chpt 2 *plaintive = sad
- As he walked he called plaintively: "Hey...Where is everybody?†
Chpt 5plaintively = in a sad manner
- It changed colors in prismatic hysteria and emitted a plaintive wail which proved it was neither weed nor Glow-wart but the disconcerting Pussy-Willow of Venus.†
Chpt 10plaintive = sad
- He stood in the doorway whistling a crooked, plaintive tune, watching the Jumper disappear into the steel-blue sky boring north toward Kingston Hospital.†
Chpt 15
- He called plaintively: "Where is everybody?†
Chpt 16plaintively = in a sad manner
Definitions:
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(1)
(plaintive) expressing sadness -- sometimes with a plea for help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)