Example Sentences

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Jones’ weepiness seems to hail from his unselfconscious ability to be moved by another artist’s work.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022

More than any other song, “Flightless Bird” and its soaring weepiness defines the Twilight saga: romantic, dark, and just cheesy enough that you can’t help but to love it—and you do.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2021

A crying woman is quickly discredited, Christle observes; even as Christle sends up her own weepiness, she is justly scathing toward experts who would pathologize the expression of emotion.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2020

But postpartum depression is not the same as the baby blues, and what tips some women over the edge from mild weepiness to major depressive disorder remains, in part, a mystery.

From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2019

I’ve been covertly crying every night that Bess has been here, though the why behind the weepiness remains an enigma.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone