[ US /ˈɫækɹiˌmoʊz/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing sorrow
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How To Use lachrymose In A Sentence

  • Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however.
  • Other types of literature, "theoretical, self-referential, lachrymosely autobiographical", are acknowledged to exist, "but they were just dry wanks". Top stories from Times Online
  • On a nightly basis, vastly overpaid news anchors appear to vie with one another to see who can emerge the most jingoistic or lachrymose.
  • 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. Cambridge Sketches
  • Where else can you hear a show lachrymosely titled ‘The Saddest Music in the World’?
  • Every scene was like a chugger begging you for lachrymose donations. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dark, resonating notes of the cello and the higher, slightly nasal voice of the gamba sang the lachrymose State of the Gambo.
  • A bar in which one may engage in such pleasant diversions as drinking beer or wine, bantering lightly or commiserating lachrymosely with friends is only a bar.
  • Nor did any lachrymose letter in the Times predict a speedy downfall of the Empire for this apathy of its local guardians.
  • You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite. The Good Soldier
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