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pity porn en · NOUN
Meanings
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(derogatory, informal, uncountable) A cinema or TV production designed to elicit great pity from the viewers, but without helping the people concerned.
Grimsby doesn’t ever wound quite as devastatingly as Borat or Brüno, but it’s a vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters.
2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):