soppy
Americanadjective
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soaked, drenched, or very wet, as ground.
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rainy, as weather.
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British Slang. excessively sentimental; mawkish.
adjective
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wet or soggy
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informal silly or sentimental
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But he does an excellent job of squaring the fading man before his eyes—the soppy grandparent and proud father—with the “shadowy, mysterious, sometimes frightening, often absent” stock figure from his youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
But she’s also a marriage-minded mercenary who can pitch one potential client on soppy platitudes about till death do you part, and immediately pivot to assuring a bride that it’s just a business deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
"I spend most Monday evenings in tears and I'm not a particularly soppy person."
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2022
During “Walking in the Rain,” she finds a way to telegraph her soppy heartsickness over boomy thunderclaps.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
“Dios mio! Don’t go all soppy on me, Stella! You know I can’t let a girl cry alone.”
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
The supermarket cafe they work in is described with humorous insight and the device of another minor car crash is just right, but this plot is soppier and lacks the startling imagery of the first.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2013
He sentimentalizes virtue, just as Chaplin did in the soppier passages of his own work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The soppiest dog, as usual, is the one that looks most fierce, a french mastiff.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2012
Whatever the case, it’s dispiriting that the draggiest, soppiest scenes in “Hall Pass,” as well as the most disgusting gag, involve women.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2011
Norman Blake – guitar and drum machine – is possibly the soppiest songwriter in Britain, having co-piloted Scottish guitar heroes Teenage Fanclub through 20 years of lovelorn rock.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011
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