Example Sentences

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But perhaps that’s why Sherlock must be sidelined: Because for all his absurd rationality, he’s really the embodiment of irresponsible rigmarole, without a lesson to teach or a past trauma to weepily expose.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2021

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

From The New Yorker • Oct. 4, 2018

It opens with Sookee weepily saying goodbye to some adults and wailing children, their gushing matched by the torrential rain.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016

In cricket this urge is expressed in less tribal fashion, often by a dogged, weepily saturnine attachment to certain players.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2011

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