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weeper

[wee-per] / ˈwi pər /


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The wide tonal variation continues with “Don’t Let Go,” a gorgeous midtempo weeper with pedal-steel guitar, tinkly piano and mournful fiddle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

As we will soon learn, George, a Midwestern farmer in late middle age, is stony and unsentimental, the opposite of a weeper.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Bentley promises a diverse album, “from the arena shaker to the barroom weeper to the bluegrass fireballer.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

My challenge for myself as a writer was to say, "Can I write about these things and have it not be a weeper?"

From Salon ● May 6, 2022

To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passion in his craft of will.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett


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