Example Sentences

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If he would get to don his black robe, he’d do it weepily.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 4, 2018

Part of this new haul is a new album, “God Level,” that showcases the weepily melodic approach that made earlier releases like “Purple Summer” and “The Wolf of Grape Street” so enticing.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018

A putative comedy, Huckabees spends significant amounts of time showing us characters weepily confronting their own insecurities, or lamenting the essential cruelty at the core of the human condition.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2012

His new film, Broken, by first-time director Rufus Norris, was weepily received at its premiere the night before we meet.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2012

Speaking with a strikingly distinctive voice, this hapless character is alternately self-pitying and self-mocking, weepily sentimental and stonily sharp-witted.

From Time Magazine Archive