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Definition of "crying" []

  • Demanding or requiring action or attention: a crying need. (adjective)
  • Abominable; reprehensible: a crying shame. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "crying" in a sentence
  • "i bet the xbots are crying "how come they don't make something like that on our Red Ring System just because it messes up in 2 weeks doesn't mean they cant put it on ours too. * crying. *crying*""
  • "I ended up calling her crying from a hotel room in Miami like, "I really love you and miss you," and I don't even remember what it was about but it's hard when you lose a girlfriend."
  • "The natives asserted that they were produced by the inhabitants of shells, and they showed us some which they called the crying shells, from which they asserted the sounds proceeded."