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Friday, October 14, 2005

lachrymose

\LAK-ruh-mohs\, adjective:
1. Given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
2. Causing or tending to cause tears.

--It is my party and I will exhibit lachrymose behavior if I want to, lachrymose behavior if I want to.
--Gibbons often wept while he jogged, making for both a lachrymose and salubrious display.

--Foofy’s wedding was, to put it lightly, a lachrymose affair.
--The firehouse cookout took a lachrymose turn when Jake decided to put on the new Morrissey.


"Roger, you seem lachrymose today."

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