false tears

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In a statement Thursday, National Nurses United said that the hospital industry was “crying false tears ... when these untenable working conditions are entirely of their own making.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2021

My mother came over and said, "If you’re having a hard time, why don’t I have the makeup man put the false tears on your face?"

From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2021

Elinor was still looking at Capricorn, a blurred sight through the veil of her false tears.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Hence, guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence, false tears, deceits, disguises, Dangers, doubts, delays, surprises,   Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine!

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George

But the impression had grown in me with the minutes that all this like everything else she did was false—false penitence, false contrition, false tears, false love and now false passion.

From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by Gibbs, George