sappy
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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
Cluttered with crude “dad humor” cartoons, sappy inspirational wall hangings and peeling travel posters, these intimate spaces are often artless.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025
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
Some sappy song would be playing while they flashed to Ashley and me sharing lunch, talking, laughing, looking coy, holding hands—and ending with that first chaste kiss.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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