adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I wish life was always like this," she said with a wistful sigh.
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She looked at them with a wistful smile. ""I wish I could go with you.''
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Simon's face grew wistful as he thought about his happy student days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As we erected the tent Tony became wistful again.
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If you look too hard it disappears altogether into a kind of wistful , disappointed light in the night sky.
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It is impossible not to be wistful for them, if only in passing.
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On occasions he seems wistful and quiet but his attitude is definitely and generally antisocial.
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Rosalie Naumann contributed her wistful smile.
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She was fair and rather birdlike, with brilliant eyes and a small wistful mouth.
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Then I wandered around for a while, casting wistful glances at my tables.
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There is something about train travel that prompts a kind of wistful , almost poetic, detachment.