half-tearful

• a word derived from tearful.
  tearful

  adjective

  full of tears; weeping.

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half-tearful

He knew himself to be in a thoroughly false position in consequence of having yielded to Donna Tullia's half-tearful request that he would join the party.

From Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Give a man one young child to take care of FOR ONE DAY, and when you return to him you find a semi-imbecile, half-tearful creature.

From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane

Hugh did not answer, for the face she turned to him, in its half-tearful, half-bright submission, took away his speech.

From Queechy, Volume I by Susan Warner

There was a smiling, half-tearful look in her eyes—those expressive eyes which, but a moment before, had burnt with a vengeful fire—as she asked the question.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Ridgwell Cullum

The man was scowling, the woman half-tearful, half-defiant.

From The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

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