sappiness
Example Sentences
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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
Dead Poets Society had its share of sappiness, not least in the climax in which the students climb onto their desks and salute Williams with Walt Whitman's line "O Captain! My Captain!"
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2014
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
