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weepy

[wee-pee] / ˈwi pi /


ADJECTIVE
sad
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But the war ended, and the smog didn’t, and L.A. wiped its weepy red eyes and demanded some solutions, dammit.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

Unlike Douglas Sirk’s beautifully photographed Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, or the subgenre’s more narratively contemplative, weepy entries from the late ’70s, the new guard of romantic tearjerkers doesn’t have a pronounced stylistic draw.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2026

“Forces loyal to the absent Shah of Iran swept iron-willed, weepy old Premier Mohammed Mossadegh out of power today with a bloody nine-hour coup,” the Associated Press wrote Aug. 20, 1953.

From Barron's Mar. 5, 2026

I’ve gotten weepy watching some of those speeches, too.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

And if she’s weepy and joyful, then I’m weepy and joyful, too.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

When they moved on to a literary culture in which irony and postmodernism reigned supreme, they were still dragging the baggage of a simpler, weepier world.

From New York Times Jan. 20, 2013

Written by Drake — the two were part of a group called the Renaissance, several years ago in Toronto — it’s a dark, slow creeper, with weepy piano and weepier lyrics about a no-good man.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2012

Funerals are getting weepier, and a good thing, too, according to the executive secretary of the National Funeral Directors Association.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the weepiest stretch of Pearl Jam’s otherwise celebratory debut at Climate Pledge Arena, which could be the start of something special.

From Seattle Times May 31, 2024

Above and below the snapshot are handwritten signs, reminders that have helped the actor mold his popular character, Papa Jack Pearson, on one of network TV’s weepiest family shows of the moment:

From Washington Times Mar. 13, 2017

To that effect, the Icelandic musician is the perfect choice for , which is easily Crowe’s weepiest tale to date.

From Time Dec. 27, 2011

The sight of a man coming down the aisle "wearing a smile" makes his old girl bust into tears; unquestionably the weepiest item since Cry.

From Time Magazine Archive




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