Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A work, especially a film or play, that is excessively sentimental.
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- noun A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It sounds like a decent middle-of-the-road weepie, which is the right way to go -- if she starts angling for Oscars right now it's going to backfire.
Cinema Blend Feeds 2009
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Let's just say it was called "weepie" and it was supposed to be about these two guys who commit a murder and it was advertised as being this intense look at how murders are simply scapegoats for the social problems of today.
lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2003
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Everybody's Fine, a kind of weepie-genre Four Christmases, in which a father pays separate surprise visits to his quartet of grown children.
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Everybody's Fine, a kind of weepie-genre Four Christmases, in which a father pays separate surprise visits to his quartet of grown children.
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Max Ophuls 'second English-language picture, plays on the surface like an exemplary melodrama, "woman's picture," "weepie," what have you.
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The X-Force/X-Statix - story where U-Go-Girl sees her daughter for the first time and decides to pose as her older sister in order to protect her is a real weepie.
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This version has the same producer, leading lady, cinematographer and costume designer as the classic weepie Imitation of Life.
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This version has the same producer, leading lady, cinematographer and costume designer as the classic weepie Imitation of Life.
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Li Bing Bing in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: 'a three-handkerchief weepie'.
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It's a three-handkerchief weepie untainted by ugly politics.
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