wailful
Americanadjective
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Throughout them all, she has to adjust continually an intricate assembly of instruments: turntable speed controls, cutting tools, a wailful of sound devices.
From Time Magazine Archive
She begg'd so long, so wailful, that less they could not do Than force the coffin open, and give the corpse to view.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
I am not going to beat the big drum of sentiment and make a wailful noise.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
She hears his wailful prayer, When now to the Invisible he raves To rend him from her, now of his mother craves Her calm, her care.
From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough; You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
From Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
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