Related Clues:

• Teary-eyed, perhaps
• Needing a hug, maybe
• Unlike a good excuse
• In need of heartening
• Tear-jerking
• Replete with regret
• Thoroughly blue
• Tearjerking
• Doleful
• Like McCullers' café
• Like may tears
• Melancholy or pitiful
• Unhappy, sorry
• Unhappy or melancholy
• Sorrowful, unhappy