(a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
Example Sentences:
(1) She is deeply feeling for her country, her people and for those around her, and yet she has never been lachrymose.
(2) The prime minister's lachrymose performance had nothing to do with his agitated emotional state, Dmitry Peskov said, but was the result of an icy breeze whipping over the Kremlin's historic cobbles.
(3) Yanis Varoufakis: maverick economist with Greece’s fate in his hands Read more If Hardouvelis, had had his way the handover would have been uneventful, if a little lachrymose.
(4) But it had been a different week – no rallies, more fear than rage; stunned, lachrymose, frightened and frightening at every level and turn.
(5) But at the same time, lachrymose athletes are funny.
(6) But lachrymose apologies are neither the French nor Hollande's way.
(7) Eulogies have a tendency to be lachrymose and overblown but I don’t think it’s overstating the case to say that a part of British pop music has died with it.
(8) Arnett’s Gob Bluth – an insanely unintegrated magician , clueless cocksman and a champion of lachrymose self-loathing in times of crisis – stood out as a brilliant comic creation even among the monsters and gargoyles in the rest of the cast.
(9) The young women, in the book, alas, are both inspid and lachrymose.
(10) Lone Survivor is decidedly not The Green Berets, John Wayne's second feature as a director from 1968, deluded and lachrymose propaganda for a war that a majority of Americans by then already wanted to be over.
(11) It takes a lot to make this cynic weep, but I'm seriously waxing lachrymose now.
(12) The floodgates had burst even before half time, presaging the tidal wave of lachrymosity that was to engulf the country.
Morose
Definition:
(a.) Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
(a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Example Sentences:
(1) You want to explore the darker things in life – death is a part of life, sadness is a part of life - but we don’t ever want to be morose.” Later on, Phil comes back downstairs.
(2) I managed to view an entire seminar free of charge (though there was no sound and there was nothing useful to be gained other than looking at the morose faces of students awake before midday).
(3) His calm, clear and collaborative manner helped lift the spirit of a team who had become rather morose under his disciplinarian predecessor, Claude Puel , and he fostered a vibrant attacking style while remaining versatile enough to use a variety of formations.
(4) However, Rifkind’s own recent privacy issues had made that tricky; empty-chairing himself might have set an awkward precedent that the prime minister would not have appreciated, so he settled for looking grumpy and morose while Hazel Blears ran the show.
(5) And then GTA V is also a monstrous parody of modern life – our bubbling cesspit of celebrity fixation, political apathy and morose self-obsession.
(6) It is more than ‘morose’ it is a catastrophic economic situation.
(7) Photograph: Alamy Size: 0.03sq miles Threave Island introduced to the historical stage a character so morosely inimical there could be only one possible name for him: Archibald the Grim.
(8) Even when a newspaper falsely claimed that Motlanthe was having an affair with a 24-year-old, not once was he "morose, dejected, looking troubled", but instead showed "amazing fortitude".
(9) The early-observed improvement concerned inhibition, lack of energy, moroseness, favouring the patients' integration in the institutional context.
(10) Immediately following each unpleasant new announcement, Cleggsy Bear shuffles on stage to defend it, working his sad eyes and boyish face as he morosely explains why the decision was inevitable – and not just inevitable, but fair; in fact possibly the fairest, most reasonable decision to have been taken in our lifetimes, no matter how loudly people scream to the contrary.
(11) Anand Gopal, author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes, referred to their morose disposition on Twitter.
(12) The group is tough but I think that when I get over this initial moroseness, I think that I will be absolutely fine.” He said that given the strength of their opponents his side, who came through an equally tough qualifying group, could not afford to try and plot a way through and would simply have to go all-out in every game.
(13) Local papers, watching the pennies and morosely certain that pounds don't look after themselves, have very little that binds them to the Sun or the Mirror .
(14) The existence of depression in young individuals has often been denied or at least underestimated particularly during adolescence, to the benefit of such other concepts as morosity, inherent in this period of life, and from which depression should be differentiated.
(15) He's sounding morose but suddenly someone walks past and Stanhope kicks into life: "Hey man!
(16) An analysis of the individual LOI items between the two groups showed that the ulcerative colitis patients were more indecisive, and also more morose, more rigid and more punctual than the duodenal ulcer patients, i.e.
(17) "Get yourself into a good morose state," he advises.
(18) O’Neill said he was “morose” after landing Italy, Sweden and Belgium in Saturday night’s draw but his side would take inspiration from the approach showed by some sides at the Brazil World Cup in targeting victory in their opening group match, at the Stade de France in Paris on 13 June.
(19) But amid talk of a global race in which developing nations are surging forward while Europe gazes morosely at its navel, our insecure politicians are proposing isolationist policies that have an impact on national prosperity and indicate hostility to the rest of the planet.
(20) There’s not a morose feeling in my school because it’s a bloody good school and people want to stay.