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weepie noun a film, novel, play, song, etc, with a sentimental narrative or emotional effect UK- — Wilfred Granville, The Theater Dictionary, p. 229, 1952
- Erich Segal was a Professor of Classics at both Oxford and Yale but received greater popular acclaim as the author of the weepie novel Love Story. — Steve Turner, A Hard Day’s Write, p. 125, 1994
- I have two favourite films: Now, Voyager, a fantastic black and white film where Bette Davis wears wonderful dresses. And a film called Random Harvest which is the same sort of genre–a black and white weepie. — The Guardian, 23 October 2000
- Fair to Midland [sung by Dwight Yoakam] is a classic country weepie[.] — The Guardian, 19 December 2003
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