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
Loretta Schwartz's articles for Philadelphia have won her a wailful of journalism awards�and an annual income of less than $7,500.
From Time Magazine Archive
But although in his attention to the wailful melody of the words he scarcely noticed the meaning, something of the old passion and fervor had gone out of his voice.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
One explained to him: "It is a wailful woman seeking her lost child; she has become this forlorn bird".
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
Her very soul seemed brooding over the dead upon Flodden field, as she sang this most wailful of melodies—this embodiment of a nation's grief.
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
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