soppy
Example Sentences
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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
