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Definition of Sob story
1. Noun. A sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy.
Definition of Sob story
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A sad story, especially one intended to elicit sympathy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sob Story
Literary usage of Sob story
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918 by Frank Michael O'Brien (1918)
"It might be added that good reporters write a " sob story " only when it fastens
itself on them and demands to be written; and then they write the facts and ..."
2. The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918 by Frank Michael O'Brien (1918)
"It might be added that good reporters write a " sob story " only when it fastens
itself on them and demands to be written; and then they write the facts and ..."
3. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"The girl who asks for a "sweet, sad, sob story" is led by the sympathetic librarian
to choose something less hysterical and morbid and to revel in the joys ..."
4. Financial Federations: The Report of a Special Committee by Family Service Association of America, William Frank Persons (1917)
"... much attempt to appeal to sentiment, too much of the' sob story.'" In the
material submitted by the various federations there are a good many instances ..."
5. Public Opinion and the Steel Strike: Supplementary Reports of the by Bureau of Industrial Research (1921)
"... book was a sob story about the way that the IWW had been treated in the West.
He also was a member of the IWW, belonging to one of the New York locals. ..."
6. The Deserter by Richard Harding Davis, John Tinney McCutcheon (1917)
"I hope when a shell or Mr. Pneumonia gets me, you'll write a nice little sob
story about the 'brave lads in the trenches.'" He looked at us, standing like ..."
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