Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shedding no tears; dry, as the eyes; hence, unfeeling; unkind; without emotion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
tears .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free from tears
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Examples
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She stopped crying, and a kind of tearless horror and dread came over her face.
The Perpetual Curate 1862
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Just a couple of years ago, I wrote a column about the advent of tearless onions that included some background on why onions make us cry in the first place.
A half-billion years of irritation ewillett 2010
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The brightly glinting late-day light seared my eyes to a tearless squint.
William Dirk Eshleman 2010
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Just a couple of years ago, I wrote a column about the advent of tearless onions that included some background on why onions make us cry in the first place.
A half-billion years of irritation ewillett 2010
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Often the young people go home in tears, or in a tearless rage, when they have seen the child and faced this terrible paradox.
Jesse Kornbluth: Happiness In 'Omelas' Depends on the Suffering of a Single Child. Could You Live With That? Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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I need help … just a little help, please, she said, crying a tearless cry.
Dirtier Than Ever Vickie M. Stringer 2010
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Dr. Havey predicts that tearless onions will eventually become a mainstay in kitchens around the world.
Tearless onions ewillett 2008
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Dr. Colin Eady of The New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research (one of their Crown corporations) announced that he and his Japanese collaborators have been successfully produced and tested tearless onions in the laboratory.
Tearless onions ewillett 2008
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After initially telling police that she had been carjacked by a black man – and making tearless pleas for the safe return of her kids on national TV – Smith later confessed to strapping the two children into her Mazda Protege and letting the car roll into John D. Long lake in Union County.
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I have written before about the allegorical setting, two stanzas earlier, for this tearless spiritual depth, when the immortal sea/
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