Plaintively
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
Painfully and plaintively are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Painfully" instead an adverb "Plaintively".
Painfully
Painfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: painfully she recounted the years of physical abuse she had received at his hands
Plaintively and painfully are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Plaintively" instead an adverb "Painfully".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and plaintively
- hard and painfully
- hardly and plaintively
- hardly and painfully
- harshly and plaintively
- harshly and painfully
- cruelly and plaintively
- cruelly and painfully
- severely and plaintively
- severely and painfully
- agonizingly and plaintively
- agonizingly and painfully
- bitterly and plaintively
- bitterly and painfully
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