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weepily

  • a word derived from weepy.
    weepy
    adjective
    weeping or tending to weep; tearful; lachrymose.

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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

Said she, weepily: "I'm just a little 114-lb. girl going in there alone."

From Time Magazine Archive