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Wailful

adjective
1.
Vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression.  Synonyms: lamenting, wailing.  "Wailing mourners" , "The wailing wind" , "Wailful bagpipes" , "Tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"






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"Wailful" Quotes from Famous Books



... have supported the voice, was apparently dumb, although the artist puffed out his cheeks as if his life depended upon it. Only after creeping quite close to the performers could I discern certain wailful breathings; this brave instrument, all splotched with variegated colours, gave forth a succession of anguished and asthmatic whispers, the very phantom of a song, like the wind sighing ...
— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas



Words linked to "Wailful" :   wailing, sorrowful



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