Definitions
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- noun sadness expressed by weeping
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Examples
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She came in complaining of inexplicable and free-floating anxiety, lethargy, a tendency to weepiness over trifles, an inability to sleep through the night because of dreams and restlessness.
Judith Acosta: Can We Just Call It Homesickness? Judith Acosta 2012
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She came in complaining of inexplicable and free-floating anxiety, lethargy, a tendency to weepiness over trifles, an inability to sleep through the night because of dreams and restlessness.
Judith Acosta: Can We Just Call It Homesickness? Judith Acosta 2012
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She came in complaining of inexplicable and free-floating anxiety, lethargy, a tendency to weepiness over trifles, an inability to sleep through the night because of dreams and restlessness.
Judith Acosta: Can We Just Call It Homesickness? Judith Acosta 2012
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Getty Images Amazon founder Jeff Bezos presents the new Kindle Fire A source of weepiness in Detroit, cars just don't have the same romance for today's youngsters.
Amazon and Our Giant Connected Heads Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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e-Trio 2010
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She came in complaining of inexplicable and free-floating anxiety, lethargy, a tendency to weepiness over trifles, an inability to sleep through the night because of dreams and restlessness.
Judith Acosta: Can We Just Call It Homesickness? Judith Acosta 2012
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I'm not talking about the small percentage of women whose lives are genuinely upended by severe physical and emotional symptoms every month; I'm talking about most women, those who have a couple of days of crankiness, weepiness, anxiety.
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I was very struck by this remark when I read it in my trusty introduction, because for all the embroidered-hanky waving weepiness of the novel, I knew just what he meant.
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Clearly considering that the magnitude of the problem called for a response other than weepiness, she blinked, then sniffed determinedly.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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I'm not talking about the small percentage of women whose lives are genuinely upended by severe physical and emotional symptoms every month; I'm talking about most women, those who have a couple of days of crankiness, weepiness, anxiety.
An Angry Woman 2010
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