'mute tears' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can typically use it when you want to indicate that someone is crying without making a sound. For example, "The little girl cried mute tears as she watched her mother walk away."
Even the throne itself appeared fleetingly to tremble under the mute disapproving roar of a tear-stained public, until the flag was lowered to half mast and the Queen herself was made to walk unconvincingly into the sea of cellophane-wrapped flowers to show solidarity.
Two years ago, she played a mute and sullen secretary in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant"; a critic in this newspaper described her as "spectacularly creepy".
Tears trickled down my cheeks as if I were a mute, wordless but still able to feel anguish.
My father, mute but alert, looked from one face to the next as we spoke, eyes shining with tears.
Esteban's transformation into one of the Horde, that group of mute and pained lost souls, was horrifying to witness, and the shot of a single tear rolling down his unresponsive cheek was devastating in its simplicity.
I am PCP-weeping; these are crocodile tears babe I want to be exactly where I am right now watching Bambi on MUTE in the dark.
By the final, even the most avid viewer feels the pull of the mute button as the opening strains of yet another heartwrenching ballad threatens to reduce Cheryl and/or Dannii to tears.
"And if you tear off everything, so nothing's left, where will Sasha be?" He yelled, "Sasha is mute!
Grandparents who thought they'd never live to see this will have to wipe tears quick; mothers and fathers who thought such a moment was mere figment of pipe dreams will have to mute the jubilation.
