teary

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  1. adjective Filled or wet with tears: teary eyes.
  2. adjective Of or resembling tears.
  3. adjective Causing weeping: a teary movie; a teary goodbye.
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  • When she was reminded of those days she inevitably got all teary, and had to switch on the television or open a magazine to take her mind away from it. —  SomethingWickedSFandHorrorMagazine#4
  • I grew up learning that my pajamas and teary-eyed mad attitudes didn't belong in my dad's tavern. —  Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
  • For all his money and success, Michael Jordan nonetheless gets teary-eyed watching his own son help Whitney Young High win state basketball title in Peoria … priceless. —  News from www.pantagraph.com
  • If you had seen me driving home to California last week, swerving slightly on the Iowa highway through teary-eyed convulsions, you would have told me to get off the road and pull it together. —  The Michigan Daily
  • And if you get a bit teary-eyed at the end, it's okay ... we did too. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. from Middle English tery, from Anglo-Saxon teárig, from teár, tear: see tear and -y.
 

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