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单词 sob sister
释义 sob sister
noun
1. : a journalist who specializes in writing or editing sob stories or other material of a sentimental type
 < the sob sisters, male and female, have filled the magazines and newspapers with sentimental homilies — A.Q.Maisel >
 < nothing of their marriage would be too intimate for the sob sisters to search out and serve to the public in syrupy prose — Vera Caspary >
 < for fear some … sob sister would track him down for one of those rags-to-riches human interest yarns — Budd Schulberg >
2. : a sentimental and often impractical person usually engaged in good works
 < the impression that psychiatrists are sob sisters who are actuated alone by sympathy for the offender — Medico-Legal Journal >
 < describes the pacifists as paid agitators, sentimental sob sistersNew Republic >
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