Synonyms for crying
ˈkraɪ ɪŋcry·ing

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1. crying, weeping, tearsadjective

   the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

   "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears"

   Synonyms:
   weeping, tears

   Antonyms:
   beseeching, invisible, imploring, inconspicuous, pleading

2. clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instantadjective

   demanding attention

   "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"

   Synonyms:
   instant, clamant, insistent, instant(a), egregious, exigent, glaring, gross, flagrant, strident, repetitive, vociferous, crying(a), blatant, clamorous, instantaneous, exacting, rank, inst

   Antonyms:
   invisible, beseeching, inconspicuous, pleading, imploring

3. crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rankadjective

   conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

   "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"

   Antonyms:
   imploring, inconspicuous, pleading, beseeching, invisible

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1. cryingnoun

   Synonyms:
   weeping, lamentation

2. cryingadjective

   Synonyms:
   weeping, lamenting

3. cryingadjective

   Synonyms:
   notorious, great, enormous, heinous, flagrant, nefarious

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1. cryingadjective

   Synonyms:
   weeping, sobbing, clamant, flagrant, egregious, heinous, nefarious

2. cryingnoun

   Synonyms:
   weeping, sobbing, wailing, wail, clamation, bawling, puling, squalling

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1. List of paraphrases for "crying":

   cry, weeping, weep, blubbering, mourn, tears, sobbing, 'recrying, mourning, cries, bawling, whining

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1. Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz:

   The moderators didn't control the debate, their bias is showing. … That being said, if you're running for president of the United States and you can't handle yourself with the CNBC moderators without you know crying foul and calling for intervention, then you're not going to do well against Vladimir Putin either. So I'm not going to complain about it.

2. Deroy Murdock:

   [The left] completely has turned the term racism into a punchline, they have gone beyond crying wolf. They have made the boy who cried wolf look like a stable and reliable character, and they totally made a mockery of the term and trivialized it to the point of ridicule.

3. Freddie Gray:

   They throw you in and it's dark in there and so you can't really see anything, ...I would hear Chrissy from the other side, slamming into the wall and just crying out.

4. Alexandria Pyle:

   She wasn't eating and when I did talk to her, she was just crying and crying and all I could say was they could not hold you forever.

5. Jordan Woynilko:

   There were moms and dads yelling for their kids, people running around, when I rewatched the video, I could hear people talking, and they were like, 'There's eight people injured down there. We need an ambulance over here.' There's one lady kneeling on the ground crying.