[
UK
/sˈɒpi/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
effusively or insincerely emotional
sentimental soap operas
slushy poetry
maudlin expressions of sympathy
a bathetic novel
mushy effusiveness
a schmaltzy song -
wet through and through; thoroughly wet
soppy clothes
stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain
the speaker's sodden collar
How To Use soppy In A Sentence
- I am not given to flights of fancy, soppy tales of love and romance and I was certainly not looking for love.
- The ballad is soppy but a surefire No1. The Sun
- Certain 'soppy' events in the anime are replaced by a more violent and harsher reality. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
- He was bold, outrageous, witty, shocking and sympathetic without being the least bit soppy or sentimental.
- He's gone all soppy, crying because he misses Saskia and being a kind ear to listen to all Craig's miserable longings.
- The lifeboat fund can well do without such soppy sentiments.
- soppy clothes
- His expressive, playful and emotion-loaded voice is appropriately soft but never soppy.
- The message is a bit soppy, but most of the story isn't.
- Soppy love songs are minimised, while the ubiquitous clashes between good and evil are pitched at just the right level.