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with feelings of bitterness or grief
- the man sighed plaintively as it became clear that he was getting nowhere with the officious bureaucrat
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- abjectly,
- cheerlessly,
- crestfallenly,
- dejectedly,
- despairingly,
- despondently,
- disconsolately,
- dispiritedly,
- downheartedly,
- low-spiritedly
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“Plaintively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plaintively. Accessed 7 May. 2021.
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