tearsome

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1. Marked by tears or weeping

   [...] jane told her parents / a massive tearsome sitdown [...]

   2014, D Edward Ennis, Steve T Harding, The Weekly Exchange Volume Three

   2 more examples

   [...] and they were seen on the holy mountains going with sad and tearsome faces: [...]

   2009, Chiara Matraini, Selected Poetry and Prose

   And then he threw open the bedroom door and she commenced to laugh, but even then, it was a weepy, gasping, tearsome kind of laughter that was purely an overflowing of joy.

   2011, Dixie Browning, The Baby Notion