Hard and Plaintively

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Hard adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.

Usage example: took the news of their grandfather's death hard

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Plaintively and hard are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plaintively" instead an adverb "Hard".

Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

Plaintively adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.

Usage example: the man sighed plaintively as it became clear that he was getting nowhere with the officious bureacrat

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Hard and plaintively are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hard" instead an adverb "Plaintively".

Nearby Words: plaintive, plaint

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