sappy
Example Sentences
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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
Just like in documentary short, history has proven the animated short award to favor crowd-pleasing films, and this delightfully immature French film about kissing is sappy enough to score the votes.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 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
"Why? You think she bought into that sappy romance stuff?"
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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