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tearjerker

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10 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aeeejkrrrtStarts with TEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an excessively sentimental narrative

Word origin

From tear + jerker, so termed because it suggests one is likely to cry during its performance.

Used in a sentence

  • Renamed in honor of the tube tearjerker, the work wondrously went on to become the most recognized theme in all of soapdom.
  • The psychologist Paul Rozin lumps tearjerkers with other examples of benign masochism like smoking, riding on roller coasters, eating hot chili peppers, and sitting in saunas.
  • The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.

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