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mushy

adjective as in doughy, soft

adjective as in romantic, corny

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The Novablast 2 delivers an ultra-plush ride that stops just short of feeling mushy.

The sweet potatoes here retain their texture, a relative rarity in the world of mushy bagged meals, while pumpkin seeds and lemon give it both bite and kick.

Whether you’ve ended up with overcooked and mushy slop or undercooked and crunchy grains, there seems to be some ineffable art—or science—to getting it just right.

Our mushy brains seem a far cry from the solid silicon chips in computer processors, but scientists have a long history of comparing the two.

When something is not easily measured, it often gets talked about in mushy or ideological terms.

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.

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On this page you'll find 89 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mushy, such as: muddy, spongy, squishy, gelatinous, jelled, and mashy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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