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What is the noun for tearjerker?

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tearjerker
  1. (informal) An emotionally charged film, novel, song, opera, real-life story, etc., usually with one or more sad passages or ending, so termed because it suggests one is likely to cry during its performance.
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    1. “The unsubtle way that this obvious tearjerker attempts to align us against the corporation is almost unbearable.”
      “If my work is misinterpreted because it's not a sappy tearjerker, sorry I'm not sorry.”
      “Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel.”
tearjerkers
  1. plural of tearjerker
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    1. “Seems the ensemble members all write and sing as well, resulting in a gripping collection of rags, country ditties and Tex-Mex tearjerkers.”
      “Yet they were also the subject of tracts, sermons, poems, memoirs, illustrations, and not a few Tin Pan Alley tearjerkers.”
      “Dern, then, is responsible for carrying the emotional weight of some of the most wrenching scenes in the pair of tearjerkers.”
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