Advertisement
Advertisement
mushy
[ muhsh-ee, moosh-ee ]
adjective
- resembling mush; pulpy.
- Informal. overly emotional or sentimental:
mushy love letters.
mushy
/ ˈmʌʃɪ /
adjective
- soft and pulpy
- informal.excessively sentimental or emotional
Discover More
Derived Forms
- ˈmushiness, noun
- ˈmushily, adverb
Discover More
Other Words From
- mushi·ly adverb
- mushi·ness noun
Discover More
Example Sentences
The road salt makes a mushy, corrosive paste that is flung universally about the under-and over-sides of every vehicle.
Persecuted is a ludicrously mushy political thriller, but the fact that it can find an audience is downright terrifying.
He is no mushy moderate, but an Obama-loathing, gubmint-hating, tax-cutting, gun-toting, education-cutting conservative.
Capability is a mushy line, and it can take a country years to go from capability to producing an actual warhead.
Those who favor bipartisan cooperation are often dismissed as mushy moderates.
Such words cannot be indefinite, mushy words; they must be definite, firm words.
You had accumulated a large load and were in a pretty mushy condition.
Well, take this awful bunch of mushy slush and read it through, and then try to make a decent half-column story out of it.
Something mushy and heavily soft like raised dough leaned against Jim's leg and chewed his trousers with a yeasty growl.
But in any case the letter should not be long, nor should it be crammed with sad quotations and mushy sentiment.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse