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English

Pronunciation

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Noun

  1. A sad or emotionally charged broadcast, film, movie, play, song, or story, sometimes exceeding the limits of necessity and/or believability.
WordNet tearjerker
n : an excessively sentimental narrative
Moby Dictionary
bathos , bleeding heart , cloyingness , goo , hearts-and-flowers ,
maudlinness , mawkishness , mush , mushiness , namby-pamby ,
namby-pambyism , namby-pambyness , nostalgia , nostomania ,
oversentimentalism , oversentimentality , romanticism , sentiment ,
sentimentalism , sentimentality , slop , sloppiness , slush ,
soap opera , sob story , sweetness and light


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