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gushy
[ guhsh-ee ]
adjective
- given to or marked by excessively effusive talk, behavior, etc.
Synonyms: unreserved, demonstrative, unrestrained, enthusiastic, emotional
gushy
/ ˈɡʌʃɪ /
adjective
- informal.displaying excessive admiration or sentimentality
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Derived Forms
- ˈgushiness, noun
- ˈgushily, adverb
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Other Words From
- gushi·ly adverb
- gushi·ness noun
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Example Sentences
It's true that Berman's view of her subject is adulatory, even gushy.
Keep it short and sweet Save overly long gushy notes for email.
I was selling forty thousand a month; I believe more than Gushy ever reached; and so they dissolved parliament.
"Gushy is not in society," said Mr. Seymour Hicks in a solemn tone of contemptuous pity.
As for Mabel, she was one of them gushy, goo-gooey kind of girls, and she was as struck with the shebang as her dad.
A gushy, giggly young party Marion is, but she turns out to be quite a help.
And Gushy takes an amiable view of this world of hypocrisy and plunder.
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