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What does wistfully mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a wistful manner.
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She wished wistfully for a warm summer on a Californian beach where her skin burned as easily as toast and time seemed to stand still.
He looks wistfully down from the second-story balcony of the smallpox pavilion.
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.
It stands in that wistfully earnest doggy way that you see them doing as they wait on the footpath outside the fish and chip shop.
The contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered.
I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.

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