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sappiness

  • a word derived from sappy.

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Stokes sweetly croons, “And I, I think I love you / and I think that I loved you the whole time,” stretching out vowels but not giving a hint of sappiness.

From Washington Post Jan. 11, 2022

The gesture backfired, underlining the sappiness of the play’s conclusion.

From New York Times Dec. 12, 2018

Today, there may be a waning interest in the sound of the violin, which many people used to consider sweet but now associate with sappiness and headaches.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2015

By Last night’s Olympic coverage featured an unprecedented barrage of sappiness, as NBC’s continued focus on parents kept the Sap-o-Meter ringing all night.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2012

That is not a nice way, but when you see you are going to lose a thing on account of sappiness, that will sometimes work.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 by Northern Nut Growers Association