lachrymose

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  1. adjective Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful.
  2. adjective Causing or tending to cause tears.

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  • There are no words severe enough for Mrs. Oliphant's horrible portrait of her as a plain-faced, lachrymose, middle-aged spinster, dying, visibly, to be married, obsessed for ever with that idea, for ever whining over the frustration of her sex. —  The Three Brontes
  • Her husband, so saith a romantic biographer, Count Wodzinski, became blind; perhaps even a blind country gentleman was preferable to a lachrymose pianist. —  The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
  • Every “local” editor breathed his woe over the incidents of the police court, the falling leaf, the tragedies of the boarding-house, in the most lachrymose periods he could command, and let us never lack fine writing, whatever might be the dearth of news. —  Washington Irving
  • The reader of this may well ask himself in wonderment whether he is really expected to make a third in the lachrymose group. —  Sterne
  • He was fifty-one, the age of the banished Ovid, to whom he often compared himself, and though the independent and haughty Burton bears no resemblance to the sycophantic and lachrymose yet seductive Sulmoan, nevertheless his letters from Trieste are a sort of Tristia — or as the flippant would put it — Triestia. —  The Life of Sir Richard Burton
 

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  1. Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima, tear; see lachrymal.
 

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/ˈlækrɪmoʊs/
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