sappy

Example Sentences

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Even the most sappy, predictable Christmas movies have an emotional tether.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

People are swooning over sappy K-dramas from Dubai to India to Singapore.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024

To counter this, she has an uncommonly strong script for the genre, balancing the sappy and sentimental with a slangy skater-queer-cool-kid voice inhabited comfortably by both Stella and Plaza.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

For decades, the powers that be have told a very specific narrative about us: triumphalist and trite, self-congratulatory and sappy, while staying far away from our difficult parts.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

Then he looked down at the picture, and I watched him go all sappy again.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly