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

Thy false tears that me aggrievèd, First of all my trust deceivèd.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote