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What does wistfully mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a wistful manner.
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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.
Titles and badges are exercised as such a weapon, to which you and I look up wistfully.
He thinks wistfully of how he used to hop freights, white lightning in hobo jungles, go through the pockets of the recently dead.
Bernie fingered a sable goatee wistfully, then turned back to the budget beards.
The contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered.

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