Usually means: Evokes strong emotional crying response.
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  1. tearjerking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tearjerking: Wordnik
  3. tearjerking: Wiktionary
  4. tearjerking: Dictionary.com

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  1. tearjerking, tearjerking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tearjerking: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (informal) Emotionally charged so as to induce sorrow.

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tearful, melting, touching, tearsome, watery, teary-eyed, teary, plaintive, saddening, elegiac, more...

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tearful, melting, touching, tearsome, watery, teary-eyed, teary, plaintive, saddening, elegiac, more...



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