sappy
Example Sentences
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Even the most sappy, predictable Christmas movies have an emotional tether.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025
He suggested the central pair's friendship "rings false", adding: "What should be piercing, impassioned moments are by turns frivolous and sappy."
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
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
They’re sappy and maudlin, aiming to reduce the audience to a puddle of tears.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024
You would think that having Lula as a friend would be a great relief to me after all my brothers, and generally this was so, but sometimes she could be a bit sappy.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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