mushy
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Cook them for longer than three minutes and they become mushy and clumpy.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
The classic recipe for fish and chips -- white fish deep-fried in batter, chips, and mushy peas, often with tartare sauce on the side -- dates back to the 1860s.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
A stronger hand in the edit could have resulted in something more dynamic and engaging, but the plotting is mushy and then rushed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Not helping matters were the show’s taped introductions to the segments—breathy readings, delivered with mushy diction, of incomprehensible poems by Monty Richthofen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
It’s mushy, with a weird texture, and has way too much pepper.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
The dope is dopey, and it’s unfortunately only a foray into mushier territory.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The face buttons are also quite small but tactile and clicky, while the D-pad is accurate enough despite being a little mushier than I’d prefer.
From The Verge ● Jan. 21, 2022
Beyond Meat starts off a bit mushier and pastier, but once it starts cooking, it breaks up and browns just fine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
With Rauch returning as director, “The Great Society” is a mushier piece, an only intermittently engaging portrait of a leader consumed by turbulent events beyond his abilities to master.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2019
Those “unnatural” feeds make chickens with mushier and blander meat.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
They seem as withdrawn as Simon, not wanting to call attention to themselves with anything but the mushiest phrases and most reticent rhymes — a timidity that lets the ear write them off as unimportant.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2019
If you’re tuned in to Stevie’s sonic language, his mushiest moments harbor myriad possibilities.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2016
And at Sunday night’s 57th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the proceedings didn’t feel like a singalong trophy contest so much as a race to pop music’s mushiest, most self-important middle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2015
Last week one of the chilliest, dreariest; mushiest winters in years was refusing to let go.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was about the mushiest performance I ever see.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
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