plaintively

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"You see"--plaintively--"I must ask questions about you.

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  • Jilseponie looked at him plaintively, and he knew that she wanted to argue with him, to try to reason with him. —  ASCENDANCE
  • Torene spoke almost plaintively, as she felt she should remind him since it amounted to inadvertent eavesdropping. —  The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall
  • He spoke plaintively, as if I'd broken a promise I came up behind him. —  dummy5
  • And then as to his heir, every care should be taken that no injury should be done to him; and speaking of this, Sir Peregrine began to say a few words, plaintively, about money. —  Orley Farm
  • Some one was talking Russian hurriedly, plaintively, and incomprehensibly. —  A Reckless Character And Other Stories
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