Possible Clues:

• Sounding sad and mournful
• Wistful
• Simple couple coming across very sad
• Mournful
• Clear I have included time to be sorrowful
• A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad
• The plural, in short, is not what I have to sound sad about
• Little plural is not all I have to be grumbling about
• Sad, mournful
• Individual devoured by sow, I have to be sad