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Crocodile Tears

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Noun

1. crocodile tears

a hypocritical display of sorrow; false or insincere weeping

Example Sentences:
'the secretaries wept crocodile tears over the manager's dilemma'
'politicians shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Crocodile Tears

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plural noun
an insincere show of grief; false tears

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Crocodile Tears

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insincere tears or a hypocritical show of grief: from an old belief that crocodiles shed tears while eating their prey

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Crocodile Tears

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pl.n.
An insincere display of grief; false tears.

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