Noun

1. A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion.
   • 1877, Charles Reade, The Woman Hater, ch. 2:

     At last he contrived to squeeze out one of his little hysterical tears, and drop it on her hand. Now, the girl was not butter, like some of her sex; far from it: but neither was she wood—indeed, she was not old enough for that—so this crocodile tear won her for the time being.