Meaning of heart-warming | Babel Free

Definitions

Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.

Equivalents

Examples

“It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.”

“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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