[
UK
/slˈʌʃi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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effusively or insincerely emotional
sentimental soap operas
slushy poetry
maudlin expressions of sympathy
a bathetic novel
mushy effusiveness
a schmaltzy song -
being or resembling melting snow
deep slushy mud
slushy snow
How To Use slushy In A Sentence
- In chapter after chapter he uncovers the stories and origins of the combination plates, the yellow cheese enchilada, fajitas, tamales, candies and slushy margaritas.
- Fierce winds, a bit of stinging rain, a bit of slushy snow, the sun bursting through the gaps in the clouds as they catapulted across the sky.
- The month of February had not helped ease to ease the monotony, with its never-ending gray days and gray, slushy snow.
- I've probably overdosed you on the slushy stuff, so let's talk about boxing instead.
- Here and there a drift across the road was wet and slushy.
- I treated her to a slushy blue frozen drink.
- What most people reported seeing were watery stretches, sometime brown, sometime grey, and relieved briefly by slushy muddy patches.
- My climbing skins grip slushy snow for a moment, then slip back with an exhausting lurch.
- By 1400 the meaning had broadened to indicate somewhere muddy, and over time came to denote something that was soggy, mushy, splashy or slushy.
- Changes in the ice regime will also require changes in operating strategies for hydroelectric installations, both at the generating facility to reduce impacts from ice (e.g., accumulations of frazil, the slushy ice-water mixture that develops when turbulent water starts to freeze), and for management of downstream flows to minimize negative impacts on river ecology and infrastructure. River and lake ice in the Arctic