Search Result for "sob_story":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy;
[syn: sob story, sob stuff]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sob story n 1: a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy [syn: sob story, sob stuff]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "sob story": bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sweetness and light, tearjerker