[
UK
/sˈɒpi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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effusively or insincerely emotional
sentimental soap operas
slushy poetry
maudlin expressions of sympathy
a bathetic novel
mushy effusiveness
a schmaltzy song -
wet through and through; thoroughly wet
soppy clothes
stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain
the speaker's sodden collar
How To Use soppy In A Sentence
- I'm finally alerted by a creepy slithery, slippy step nearby on soppy, dew-saturated fallen leaves.
- It was a foolish, late-night idea powered by a little too much alcohol, and a few soppy fool tendencies.
- There's no story; no soppy lyrics; it's not exploitative or nasty; it's closer to circus, but with simpler tricks and better music.
- If you're soppy and sentimental you may like it; but otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
- You could do soppy romantic things like that and people would just roll their eyes at you and leave you be.
- The present show questions the validity of these soppy views. Times, Sunday Times
- Not soppy, realistic and there is a powerful message there about the nature of love/friendship. A HOUSE, A HOME • by Valerie O’Riordan
- You might think this a bit uncharacteristically 'soppy' but several Rotarians had been acting as stewards and thought that I'd been pushing an empty pram around as a stunt. Archive 2007-12-01
- Everything bounces along with a youthful joy, devoid of cynical teenage angst, full of hope and dare we say it slightly soppy.
- I come clean in admitting I am a soppy sentimentalist at heart.