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What does wistfully mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a wistful manner.
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I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.
Even so, she had never stopped wistfully daydreaming about what could have been, of the life she could have lived on Lothos.
An oversized gnome, he looms over garden ponds, stares wistfully up at bedroom windows.
He looks wistfully down from the second-story balcony of the smallpox pavilion.
No matter how wistfully we may long for the fountain of youth, the fact is that Laws of Thermodynamics are irrefutable.
As Nora listened to him laugh and shout with the others, she set her elbow on the table, resting her head upon it, and sighed wistfully.

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