(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.
Weeping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weep
(n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
(a.) Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.
(a.) Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.
(a.) Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
(a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with bilateral forebrain disease may commonly manifest the syndrome of pathologic laughing and weeping.
(2) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(3) We report the emergence of an erythematous weeping rash with impending exfoliation three years after the initiation of minoxidil therapy.
(4) Abu Qatada's brothers, children and sisters remained on a court bench, some of the women weeping as journalists pressed against the courtroom cell to ask the Salafist leader about his views on Isis violence.
(5) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(6) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(7) Past reunions brought together weeping family members desperate for details and news.
(8) A Syrian man who was pictured weeping as he and his family reached the Greek island of Kos last month has arrived in Berlin, it has been reported.
(9) People were weeping in the streets outside, but once the fire was out everyone took stock a little bit.
(10) How was I expected to get through the night without weeping openly?
(11) That’s fine, that’s the great thing about being an artist – I’m not going to weep over their multimillion-pound suit trousers.” Grayson Perry: All Man concludes on Thursday 19 May at 10pm on Channel 4
(12) As measured by the Hospital Observed Behavior Scale, subjects in the intensive care unit exhibited apprehension, anxiety, detachment, sadness, and weeping more often than did patients in the ward.
(13) These genes do not appear to play a role in infection of weeping lovegrass because both parents and all progeny infect weeping lovegrass.
(14) Angry beyond belief, unable to control his weeping, he ran to the local governor's office to complain at this vicious injustice.
(15) If the football fans were like that, Emile Heskey would be an almost sacred figure and people would still be weeping about Peter Beardsley.
(16) He said she was weeping with shock but was not taken to hospital and instead was met by her boyfriend and taken to stay with her sister.
(17) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
(18) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
(19) Although this form of application is a special presentation for the treatment of very dry dermatoses, patients with not so dry and weeping dermatoses were also treated in this trial, the object being to include the role played by the vehicle in the results of therapy.
(20) Only a short bus ride from Princes Street, it combines peace and tranquillity, a burbling stream, and autumn colours to make New England weep.