boohoo
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“Grief is complicated, like love, and it’s not always just boohoo crying or pissed off and angry. It’s funny sometimes, in a morbid kind of way. It’s awkward. It’s many, many different things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
They're on the show to bring enough attention to their Instagram accounts, sell some diet teas, possibly land a fashion collaboration with boohoo or some other Instagram boutique.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2021
You will look at his earnings and mock him with a boohoo.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
But if you chop, cut, crush or smash one — boohoo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2017
Why, Becky was runnin' on and laughin' jest like a gal at picnic up to the minnit the last man slammed the door, and then, down she went and began to boohoo.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris
Then he hands it off to Greg who reads from a soulless statement informing them they've all been fired as Tom fake boohoos off camera.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
Big boohoos, with little squeals of frustration when she punches her teddy bear.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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“I boohooed through it. When we were writing about it, I started crying,” said Kinsey, who played the stickler, cat-loving accountant, Angela Martin.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2022
He claimed it had been boohooed as it was dangerous but no fire could happen as it’s all stone.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2020
When they went to bat, they were "boohooed" from their opponents' bench.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If de Lord in his goodness take you away, let me go wid you, Missus;' and I was so sorry I boohooed right out, and groaned and wipy eye like courtin' amost.
From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I boohooed like a kid this morning because they wouldn't let me have broiled ham for breakfast.
From Molly Brown's Sophomore Days by Nell Speed
A majority of the characters hold Hollywood jobs — save for a poet, a musician and a blogger — and an oddly large number are recently single and boohooing over their exes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
But no amount of boohooing about being lonely and listening to Snow Patrol is going to make it any better.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012
A few million of her admirers, who have found her vastly appealing, might join in her "detestable boohooing," as Henry Higgins called it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I’m sitting on our brown shag carpet, boohooing like a dang fool, clutching onto Darlene, shoulders shaking worse than an earthquake.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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“Now, no snot-slinging or boohooing about ‘poor ol’ Rex,’” Dad said.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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