plaintive 的定义
- expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
plaintive 近义词
pathetic, woebegone
更多plaintive例句
- All three of those things, and more era-specific delights, are right there in Wright’s movie, as if he had read my own plaintive childhood desires and put them onscreen.
- Hamer declared in her plaintive, outspoken way: “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired!”
- Hence the plaintive email from inside the bunker at Walmart in February.
- What a strange, plaintive philosophy for someone whose profession involved sitting alone most of the day: love the world.
- It was a message rejected as too plaintive and apologetic by the black America of 1950.
- He also has a precocious attraction to his favorite nurse, Ingrid, who sings to him every night in a “plaintive voice.”
- From higher up, at the level of the hidden bed, came the regular plaintive respiration of Sarah Gailey.
- There is nothing like a plaintive retort when your case is utterly indefensible.
- The music grew strange and fantastic—turbulent, insistent, plaintive and soft with entreaty.
- For Sara Lee's statement that she could manage would draw forth a plaintive burst from the older woman.
- In one such startled interval of waking her caged cricket had given out its plaintive cry.