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Synonyms for crocodile tears


Grammar : Noun



Définition of crocodile tears

  • noun fake and insincere tears
Example sentences :
  • That mother's tears did not seem to me like crocodile tears.
  • Extract from : « Looking Back » by Merrick Abner Richardson
  • Crocodile tears though they often are, they have an effect on me which is more than peculiar.
  • Extract from : « In Strange Company » by Guy Boothby
  • You couldn't keep it to yourself, for all your promises and your crocodile tears!
  • Extract from : « The Lookout Man » by B. M. Bower
  • Come, come; don't stand there shedding your crocodile tears; you are found out, and may as well leave off shamming any more.
  • Extract from : « The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 » by Eugne Sue
  • But he was accustomed to shed these crocodile tears after horrors of this kind, when he had made no effort to mitigate them.
  • Extract from : « The Turkish Empire, its Growth and Decay » by Lord Eversley
  • The killdeer's crocodile tears are bigger and more touchingly genuine than even the quail's.
  • Extract from : « Wild Life Near Home » by Dallas Lore Sharp
  • At this Ryder shed some crocodile tears; and very soon, by her blandishments, obtained forgiveness.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 » by Various
  • When I use the word crocodile I am not hinting at savage instincts or crocodile tears.
  • Extract from : « Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany » by Georg Brandes
  • "I looked as if I did not understand what was meant by these crocodile tears," said he.
  • Extract from : « History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Vol 2 » by J. H. Merle D'Aubign
  • He finally gets accustomed to these everlasting murmurs, to these dying postures, these crocodile tears.
  • Extract from : « The Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete » by Honore de Balzac

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