half-tearful

• a word derived from tearful.
  tearful

  adjective

  full of tears; weeping.

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half-tearful

"I—perhaps—one has to think of a boy's future—" The pale face was suffused with rose, and for a moment looked pretty in its half-tearful embarrassment.

From Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing

She had rolled in somehow over the side, and sat soaked and heavy, half-laughing and half-tearful, right at his feet.

From The End of the Rainbow by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

The girl took his arm, as she said this, and held to it caressingly, with both hands, while her eyes, half-beaming, half-tearful, sought in his face some contradiction of his savage mood.

From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

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

"They won't listen!" added an impatient, half-tearful voice.

From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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