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wailful
[ weyl-fuhl ]
adjective
- mournful; plaintive.
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- wailful·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
He suggested that the poems, if the few lines he had seen made a fair sample, were rather of the wailful order.
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The battle was ending without even the poor pomp and circumstance of torn banners and wailful music.
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You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets whose composèd rimep.
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Clouds were gathering overhead, and a wailful wind made one moaning sweep through the trees behind us in the hollow.
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Then over their tops passed a wailful gust of wind, through which we thought came the fall of receding footsteps.
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