- sob story as a noun:
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sob story
noun
1 sob story
A sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy.
synonym: sob stuff.
Dutch: smartlap, draak, tearjerker, tranentrekker
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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