crying
adjective
demanding attention or remedy; critical; severe.
cryingly
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a word derived from
crying.
Example Sentences
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The person who was struck most painfully by this disgraceful and cryingly stupid adventure was Mrs. van Koopman.
From Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker by Catherine, Princess Radziwill
Settle on flowers, speak cryingly and be loath to detain her.
From Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein
In the severe and protracted struggle with the Philistines the necessity for a solid union of the tribes was cryingly manifest, and the man came forward to meet the hour.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
Such lines as The Dinlay snaw was ne'er mair white Nor the lyart locks o' Harden's hair are cryingly modern and "Scottesque."
From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang
That philosophy will be cryingly unjust about once in ten.
From The Mountains by Stewart Edward White
