crying

noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts

• “a crying mass of rioters”
• “a howling wind”
• “shouting fans”
• “the yelling fiend”

demanding attention

• “clamant needs”
• “a crying need”
• “regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous” H.L.Mencken
• “insistent hunger”
• “an instant need”

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”

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”