sappy

How To Use sappy In A Sentence

• Romantic comedy is a genre mainly comprised of sappy, syrupy fare with few risks and fewer surprises.
• In the film, Tick's ambivalence and fear were palpable; here it's rendered with a sappy songfest that cheapens the experience. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Priscilla Queen of the Desert
• They had one crude but catchy hit followed by a maudlin and sappy second single.
• Three Rounds and Sound, their newest album, has a bit of raw rootsiness that seems to make sense coming from Portland, Oregon -- relevant but not exactly in the center of the map, low-fi but full, smooth but not sappy. Marissa Moss: Maybe You've Heard...the Inaugural Edition
• She suddenly found herself alone on Friday nights watching sappy movies and crying her eyes out.
• Awww, Arnold is jealous that he doesn't get enough attention in sappy. mp3! Economic Elitism Thought Experiment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• They strip the bark off trees to get at the sweet, sappy tissue underneath, damaging it badly.
• Aside from some needlessly sappy sentimentality and a cute quirkiness to characters that sometimes seems a little too pat, the film is well written.
• I draw the line at sappy actionless weepers, though.
• With clunky writing, the characters are simply shallow, callow and cold, when not being sappy or self-pitying.