Definition of "weepie" []

• Informal A work, especially a film or play, that is excessively sentimental. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "Max Ophuls 'second English-language picture, plays on the surface like an exemplary melodrama, "woman's picture," "weepie," what have you."