sappy
/ˈsapi
/adjective (sappier, sappiest)
1 informal, chiefly North American Mawkishly over-sentimental: sappy old love songs...
- What was the deal with the bridge and the cars and the old sappy songs?
- She realized that all of those sappy love songs filled with clichés were true.
- Their affinity for Beach Boys-like sentiment is apparent in sappy lyrics and songs titles like My First Kiss.
2(Of a plant) containing a lot of sap.The plant life was everywhere, and richly green and sappy....
- They strip the bark off trees to get at the sweet, sappy tissue underneath, damaging it badly.
- Others may need support if grown in rich soils with high levels of nitrogen, as this produces masses of weak, sappy growth.
Derivatives
sappily
- The younger women and their mothers were ‘almost sappily positive’ about their relationships, he says.
- He gazed deeply into her eyes and grinned sappily, ‘I am so glad to see you here and smiling at me.’
- His character is appropriately cold and callous part of the time, but also sappily emotional and childish part of the time.
sappiness
- Sentimentality and sappiness have always been as difficult to separate as conjoined twins.
- I will admit that during a few scenes Little Man Tate does start to tilt into overindulging sappiness.
- It's a little sappy at times, but then sometimes a little sappiness isn't so bad.