Definition of "lachrymose" []

• Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful. (adjective)
• Causing or tending to cause tears. (adjective)

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• "He was not only kind-hearted, but very tender-hearted, so that his lips would quiver on occasions and his eyes fill with tears, -- what doctors improperly call a lachrymose nature; but in regard to a question of principle or public necessity he was as firm as Plymouth Rock."
• "I think Boehner will be strong and lachrymose, which is an interesting combination."
• "Adderley watched them too with a kind of lachrymose interest."