blubbering 1 of 3

present participle of blubber
as in sobbing
to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress the poor child was blubbering because he had fallen and skinned his knee

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blubbering

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adjective

blubbering

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noun

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Recent Examples of blubbering
Noun
Wanting to make Lambert more than some blubbering wreck, Cartwright emphasized her common sense. Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blubbering
Verb
  • Daria spotted the crying woman from the consulate, now in a pink bikini and a green mesh coverup, waiting her turn to leap onto the beach.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Fans are screaming, crying, planting flowers in the shape of a ‘T,’ and rearranging birthdays and baby deliveries just to be in theaters.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As church members left the multiplex theater reunification site, some rushed to family and friends waiting outside, hugging and weeping.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Suppose the mental triggers for weeping are the antithesis of the triggers for laughter.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two years of sobbing until my chest hurt.
    Lisa K. Friedman, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Viewer Reactions The Instagram video reached over 598,000 views and 28,685 likes as of Tuesday, with viewers sobbing over Whiskey's heartbreaking reaction.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And since then, his crying and whining have increased.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • As seen and heard this week at the SEC spring meetings, the whining over that has not ceased.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Paula also shared another angle of the cast singalong to her 1997 single, a particularly sentimental moment for the handful of fans who got to take in the one-night-only charity event.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Art that truly centres girlhood, meanwhile, had too often been dismissed as sentimental or lacking intellectual rigor.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • After a mawkish beginning, the play somewhat redeems itself through earned emotions and an ambiguous ending that begs discussion.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, jailed and banned frequently, has never allowed his work to get mawkish.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • While such a scenario sounds potentially maudlin and manipulative, Lucero — who wrote the film from a personal place — never allows that to happen by making the characters complex and flawed, and laboring under real-life issues.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Hoffman and Jonsson are both brilliant, vulnerable in their humanity in the face of such unfathomable conditions, but their repartee does seem forced and often maudlin.
    Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Blubbering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blubbering. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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