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wistful
1. adj. Full of longing or yearning.
His eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days.
2. adj. Sad and thoughtful.

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One cannot help but entertain a wistful hope that she found joy and sexual fulfilment in her marriage, even though it lasted only months before her death.  It ceases to be a wistful beauty surviving shadowly in the accents and the syntax of Wales's English speakers.

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