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What does lachrymose mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lachrymose? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
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What remains, is a species of pseudo-emotion which must be characterized as lachrymose hysteria or turgidity.
You'd think that for a such a lachrymose man, riven by longstanding doubts, his adopted home would be an ideal refuge.
Yet for this reviewer, British and female, the picture of lachrymose middle-aged manhood drawn by Ms Sheehy beggars belief.
The dark, resonating notes of the cello and the higher, slightly nasal voice of the gamba sang the lachrymose State of the Gambo.
The priest comes along dandling his charge as if it were a lachrymose infant he was endeavouring to put into a good humour.
This morning the world is not talking about a dubious song by the host, a lachrymose speech or even an appalling outfit.

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