weepy
adjective
weepily
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a word derived from
weepy.
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
By 1976, the beauty-beast relationship had grown rather more complicated, and Jessica Lange was weepily begging Kong to hold onto her.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
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
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
Said she, weepily: "I'm just a little 114-lb. girl going in there alone."
From Time Magazine Archive
