Synonym: desirous, hankering, homesick, longing, melancholy, nostalgic, pensive, yearning. Similar words: wistfully, boastful, hurtful, fretful, forgetful, tactful, doubtful, deceitful. Meaning: ['wɪstfʊl] 
adj. showing pensive sadness.
adj. showing pensive sadness. 
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1. The statue has a gentleness, an ambience, a wistful elegance.
2. I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up.
3. Rosalie Naumann contributed her wistful smile.
4. As we erected the tent Tony became wistful again.
5. But as the wistful cherub of 18 months, photographed at her play group.
6. It is impossible not to be wistful for them, if only in passing.
7. Her face softened immediately, affection and wistful envy mingling in her expression.
8. With another wistful sigh she sat back in her seat.
9. His smile faded, became a wistful, boyish expression of loss.
10. Then I wandered around for a while, casting wistful glances at my tables.
11. Simon's face grew wistful as he thought about his happy student days.
12. On occasions he seems wistful and quiet but his attitude is definitely and generally antisocial.
13. His brief anger passed, and a wistful smile crossed his swarthy face.
14. She was not sad, only wistful, blanched.
15. She seems a little wistful.
16. His sole reference to Watergate was wistful.
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17. He felt wistful and then smiled to himself.
18. He looked so wistful as he went away.
19. He has a wistful look.
20. She had a last wistful look at the house.
21. His wistful eyes gazing at the shop made this whole meeting of men so pitiful.
22. I thought about those days in Spain and grew wistful.
23. Yet despite the vibrant colours Modigliani captured something of the wistful yearning of his nature.
24. There is something about train travel that prompts a kind of wistful, almost poetic, detachment.
25. She was fair and rather birdlike, with brilliant eyes and a small wistful mouth.
26. "I wish life was always like this," she said with a wistful sigh.
27. Gouache is ideal for recording the fleeting effects of light shimmering on the sea and the wistful skies above.
28. The human landscape so lovingly evoked by Leigh Fermor, Lawrence Durrell and others is now a wistful memory.
29. If you look too hard it disappears altogether into a kind of wistful, disappointed light in the night sky.
30. Trundling chromaticism has the music roll up to a fortissimo, the orchestra still proclaiming the originally wistful piano-theme.
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