The dog scratched at the back door and whined plaintively, hoping someone would let him in the house.
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Plaintively
Synonyms for "plaintively" (19 found)
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Sample sentences
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Not far off a Jewish boy, a mere child, of one of the northern tribes, as shown by his fair hair and blue eyes, sang plaintively a song of the singing of birds and the humming of bees, of the flowers of the North, of rippling streams, of the miraged desert, of the waving of the tamarisk and the scent of roses.
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The cat meowed plaintively.
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