weepy
adjective
weepily
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a word derived from
weepy.
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
