in sackcloth and ashes

adjective

Roget 839: lamenting etc. v.; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing, sorrowful etc. (unhappy) 828; mournful, tearful; lachrymose; plaintive, plaintful^†; querulous, querimonious^†; in the melting mood; threnetic^†.    in tears, with tears in one's eyes; with moistened eyes, with watery eyes; bathed in tears, dissolved in tears; like Niobe all tears" [Hamlet]. elegiac, epicedial^†.    ... show more

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