larmoyant

• He was so larmoyant the other morning, that I did not dare to ask him any questions about it. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
• But thou know'st I can be a right merry and conceited fellow, and rarely 'larmoyant.' —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• The national disposition is for hard-hitting, with a moral purpose to sanction it; or for a rosy, sometimes a larmoyant, geniality, not unmanly in its verging upon tenderness, and with a singular attraction for thick-headedness, to decorate it with asses 'ears and the most beautiful sylvan haloes. —  Complete Short Works of George Meredith
• Durendal, and regarding it _ "with great pity and compassion," _ he exclaimed, in a loud voice, "plorant et larmoyant:" -- —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• "I do my best," she said in a larmoyant tone, "but I can't do everything, what with having to cook, and clean, and run up and down stairs with notes, and answer the bell every other minute to lords." —  The Nebuly Coat

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms