Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With weeping; in tears.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a weeping manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
weeping manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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" 'Love Me Do'…a melody so weepingly banal it sounds like a fingering exercise for primary-school recorder practice."
They Don't Love You, Yeah Yeah Yeah Karl Shaw 2011
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Sometimes the liberal ones, sometimes the conservative, most frequently the weepingly moronic.
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Though the gory action is plentiful and, in horror terms, weepingly realistic, there is also plenty of time between the unholy munchings/tearings/beatings/unearthly cries of misery and despair from soulless necrotic bodies for the tension to build, the shadows to gather and the dread to pool in your tender, vulnerable stomach.
I hate zombies ? but I like The Walking Dead Lucy Mangan 2010
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Then he convinced himself that attempts to pass a bill with budget reconciliation measures designed to avoid an obstructionist filibuster comprised a sort of Chicago Mafia hit on an underdog Republican Party that, weepingly, has no control over the events swirling around them.
OpEdNews - Diary: The Republicans, Embracing Ersatz Victimhood 2009
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Still, if all you can manage is to avoid speaking about something your audience finds uncomfortable, disgusting, inappropriate, weepingly dull, or nightmare-inducing, I say: that's a job well done.
You Promoted Your Book and I Don't Bitterly Regret Coming! Win/Win. Editorial Anonymous 2009
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I can't decide if it's hilariously stupid or weepingly stupid.
Archive 2009-07-01 Editorial Anonymous 2009
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Still, if all you can manage is to avoid speaking about something your audience finds uncomfortable, disgusting, inappropriate, weepingly dull, or nightmare-inducing, I say: that's a job well done.
Archive 2009-11-01 Editorial Anonymous 2009
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I can't decide if it's hilariously stupid or weepingly stupid.
Quick Answers (My Favorite Kind) Editorial Anonymous 2009
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Oh, dear God, here comes the weepingly self-indulgent hairshirts and self-flagellation:
Oh, shriek. CC 2008
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Oh, dear God, here comes the weepingly self-indulgent hairshirts and self-flagellation:
Archive 2008-06-01 CC 2008
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