Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of expressing sorrow, grief, or the like audibly; loud cries of sorrow; deep lamentation.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
- n. loud cries made while weeping
Etymologies
- wail + -ing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All of this wailing is a long winded way of saying that, this morning, I cut 10k worthless, horrible, painful words out of my manuscript.”
“But for five whole days he plunged the land in wailing and sorrow, and for five whole days he was the only man in the Klondike.”
“So far the Obama Administration, to our surprise and perhaps its own, has behaved with admirable sobriety despite the wailing from the political left.”
“I remember when the company in Dubai wanted to buy our ports and the wailing from the Repugs was deafening.”
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“The latter being a VERY cool tune with Robin wailing at the end, “I wanna live in your body!””
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“So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room.”
“So, despite all the screaming and wailing from the right about how Obama threatens America, an unnerving bipartisan consensus on the key precepts of American militarism has, in 2010, fully re-asserted itself.”
“Then came silence, followed by the wailing from the platform of his daughters, who'd just seen their father run over.”
“In the front to the left was a four foot high, four foot long wall built and painted by a couple of guys in our community that we call our wailing wall - people can come and write out their hearts' cries to the Lord and nail them to the wall.”
“The pained and pompous wailing from the traditional student council weenies”
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Sounds
words that describe sound
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The Secret Garden
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dandy's list
favourite words
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to acquire
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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je les adore!
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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words about sound
mellifluous, susurrate, sibillant, aria, whispering, melodious, cacaphonous, cacophony, harmony, symphonious, phoeneme, phonic and 29 more...
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I like : W
wailing, wanderlust, war, warlock, wend, wherewithal, whippoorwill, widdershins, wendigo, wight, willow, witch hazel and 16 more...
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Magoosh List
Magoosh GRE list
hoodwink, dovetail, slapdash, upstart, sinecure, troubadour, fulminate, waddle, wailing, gobble, mongrel, masquerade and 38 more...
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GRE Confusing words
List of confusing words for GRE
comprehensible, comprehensive, overweening, overbearing, pretentious, portentous, ponderous, seamy, seam, seemly, waddle, wailing and 11 more...
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