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lachrymose
Part of speech: AdjectiveTearful; sad. Also, lacrimose.
Usage examples "lachrymose":- Only to her husband, and occasionally, in a fit of passion, to someone who she thought had treated her badly, did she show a lachrymose side of her nature. - "The Way of Ambition", Robert Hichens.
- He had received a lachrymose letter from his friend Faddle, at Aberdeen, in which the unfortunate youth had told him that he was destined to remain in that wretched northern city for the rest of his natural life. - "Ayala's Angel", Anthony Trollope.
- Adderley watched them too with a kind of lachrymose interest. - "God's Good Man", Marie Corelli.