sirupy
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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From their sirupy fiction to their slinky fashion ads, the weeklies are put together with but a single thought in mind: the care and catching of men.
From Time Magazine Archive
He ate spaghetti with Italians, drank tea with Chinese, sipped sirupy coffee with Syrians.
From Time Magazine Archive
When war came she stayed on in Berlin, broadcasting a mixture of sirupy music and defeatist propaganda to U.S. troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rest comes out as a waste sulphite liquor,* a sirupy fluid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any one without a cast-iron head would be "real chippy" next morning after one glass of that sirupy champagne.
From Project Gutenberg
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