lachrymose

• 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
• Gurlick disliked the whole thing mightily, but except for a lachrymose grumble, no protest was possible. —  The Cosmic Rape
• At length, when every one was leaving the room and crowding into the hall, and a footman slipped my greatcoat on to my shoulders in such a way as to tilt up my cap, I gave a dreary, half-lachrymose smile, and remarked to no one in particular: "Comme c'est gracieux XXXIX. —  Youth
• Many men in their cups become lachrymose, others silly, and some combative. —  Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
• His tone had never been so lachrymose, nor his face so full of woe. —  The Bertrams

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