tearjerker
[teer-jur-ker]
- a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
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Origin of tearjerker
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Related Words for tearjerker
longing, sentimentality, remorse, yearning, wistfulness, play, theater, farce, show, scene, production, comedy, tragedy, melodrama, homesickness, reminiscence, schmaltz, pining, story, novelExamples from the Web for tearjerker
Contemporary Examples of tearjerker
As Bichir put it, his tearjerker role is just the sort that actors “die” for.
