Main entry: tears, weeping, crying
Definition: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
Usage: I hate to hear the crying of a child; she was in tears
Main entry: flagrant, rank, egregious, crying, glaring, gross
Definition: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Usage: a crying shame; an egregious lie; flagrant violation of human rights; a glaring error; gross ineptitude; gross injustice; rank treachery
Main entry: insistent, instant, clamant, crying, exigent
Definition: demanding attention
Usage: clamant needs; a crying need; regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous- H.L.Mencken; insistent hunger; an instant need