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tearjerking
noun
(tear-jerk-er)
a story, song, play, film, or broadcast that moves or is intended to move its audience to tears
Words Related to
tearjerking
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tearjerker
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mawkish
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melodramatic
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sappy
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maudlin
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schmaltzy
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weepy
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bathetic
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poignant
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pathos
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melodrama
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treacly
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soppy
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sentimental
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heartfelt
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saccharine
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hilarious
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sorrowful
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cringeworthy
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elegiac
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lachrymose
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wistful
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cheesy
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cliched
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tragical
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bathos
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lunkheaded
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unaffecting
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tragi
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unoriginality
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dopier
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chucklesome
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goosebump
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sentimentalized
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triteness
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sappiness
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melancholy
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overwrought
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threnody
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weepie
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daftness
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corniness
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pulpier
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foreshadowings
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moroseness
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squee
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haunting
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ruefulness
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soapier
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dostoevskian
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overlong
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salaciousness
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roundelay
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unamusing
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insipidness
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effervescently
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zinnemann
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hokey
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grand guignol
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vapidness
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heartbreak
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monologuing
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pantomimic
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dirgelike
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soaper
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tin soldier
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blackly
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catharses
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lingeringly
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overfamiliar
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moony
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fictionalisation
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unentertaining
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antiheroine
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terribleness
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hackneyed
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encoring
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hacky
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gutbucket
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bitchery
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quivery
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gagster
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looniness
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sophoclean
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insipidity
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tourette
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wordsworthian
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nabokovian
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pensiveness
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mirthfully
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moonstruck
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unstrung
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sordidly
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killingly
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hilarity
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comical
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cloying
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tuneless
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brassiness
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gruesomeness
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tearjerking
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