Weepie

Quick meaning: Weepie is a noun meaning (colloquial) A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience.

Meaning

(colloquial) A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience.

Example Sentences

John is white, Della is Black, and any interracial relationship isn’t just a legal dead end, but a threat to their very lives from the disapproving world that surrounds them. It all sounds like a Hallmark weepie, but in Robinson’s hands, it becomes transcendent.

Word Forms

• weepies
• weepy

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saddie, softie, nakige, sadcom, schmoop, soundie.

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