Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime,
Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.

[…] So shine thy tristfull light
With pallid Ray, and with strange Horrour, fright
The world:

1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184,
I think, I want nothing but a ’squire as tristful as yourself, to record my misadventures in the stile of a ballad, called the Disastrous Traveller […]

A wistful look in your mirror, and an air of tristful languor in public, and a sense of being deeper than you thought you were, if you ever thought about it at all.

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