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tear-jerking

tear-jerking is the alternative spelling of tearjerking.

Meaning of tearjerking

Adjective

tearjerking (comparative more tearjerking, superlative most tearjerking)

  1. (informal) Emotionally charged so as to induce sorrow.
    • Robert Zemeckis, a director previously known more for brittle, antihumanistic comedy (Used Cars, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her) than heartwarming sentiment, moves into Oscar territory with an accomplished tearjerking comedy (1994) about a slow-witted southerner (Tom Hanks in the title...1995 March 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Don Druker, Pat Graham, Dave Kehr, Peter Keough, Henry Sheehan, “Movies”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of tear-jerking

comparativemore tear-jerking
superlativemost tear-jerking

Questions about tear-jerking

What is tear-jerking the alternative spelling of?
Tear-jerking is the alternative spelling of tearjerking.

Words near tear-jerking in the dictionary

  1. tear-gases
  2. tear-gassed
  3. tear-gassing
  4. tear-jerker
  5. tear-jerkers
  6. tear-jerking
  7. tear-mouth
  8. tear-mouths
  9. tear-off
  10. tear-offs
  11. tear-pit

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