Plaintive in a sentence as an adjective

The plaintive litany of the master race as it laid dying.

But I guess being plaintive and edgy is as good a method as any to get to the front page of HN, right?

My email got a response, the plaintive posts in the thread didn't, and the mods said you need to email them to get their attention [0].

A lot of good came from this, I'm quite sure that there were some cases where both the plaintive and the defense were spending as much time reading groklaw as they were reading their email.

Is my system configured correctly?This is why there are occasional spasms of "back to basics" or plaintive remembering of the BBC Micro.

They much be very excited to wade through 100s of buzzword compliant ideas with no business model attached and the plaintive cry of "it's social and location-based.

A whimsical yet austere post, heavy on the bombast but with hints of compassion and, for the discerning reader, notes of plaintive wishfulness, with a bitter yet wholesome finish.

Now something as innocent as downloading a whitepaper means months of plaintive phone calls from inside sales drones pleading "this is the fourth time I've tried to reach you since you downloaded our whitepaper a month ago.

I have a friend that travels all the time, and I'll get plaintive emails about being in some hotel in some great city, such as Hong Kong, and he has been working 15 hour days and crashing in his hotel room, while his wife and kids and home and dog are half a planet away.

Maybe they could get a religious organization that Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was a member of in Denver to join as a plaintive and argue that by killing citizen members of their group the government was interfering with the practice of their religion.

It's a false sense of security because they've only done part of what they need to do in order to be successful in life, and they don't even realize it!So is it any wonder that uninformed and dispirited job seekers come at the world with plaintive cries of "I have a PHD in X and here I am flipping burgers!

Arceneaux contributed just one plaintive email:> As the person somewhat in the middle this extended phlegm, it strikes me that both accounts of this history contain a certain degree of inaccuracy.> Be that as it may, I would like to urge the parties involved to forget all this and again make efforts to join forces.

Plaintive definitions

adjective

expressing sorrow

See also: mournful