heart-warming

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heart-warming (comparative more heart-warming, superlative most heart-warming)

  1. Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
    It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.
    • 2020 September 24, @pookleblinky, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 June 2024:
      Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

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