Example Sentences

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Irony can be as cloying as gushiness, in excessive doses.

From The New Yorker • May 18, 2015

I have developed a searing contempt for gushiness and schmaltz.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

While it may be obnoxious to the charge of gushiness, to those who were in this fight, by daylight, or in the night, I think scarcely anything can appear exaggerated.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus