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[ UK /sˈɒpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. effusively or insincerely emotional
    sentimental soap operas
    slushy poetry
    maudlin expressions of sympathy
    a bathetic novel
    mushy effusiveness
    a schmaltzy song
  2. 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.
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