sappy
Example Sentences
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Silly but not sappy, “Project Hail Mary” doesn’t gin up much suspense over whether anything bad will happen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
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
The girls call him “Sparky” because he kept suggesting those sappy, romantic films from the Nicholas Sparks books.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2023
Henry is an avid reader, but that doesn't mean he'll be caught picking up a YA book or a sappy romance.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023
It was interesting, not stupid or silly or sappy or overly intellectual—not any of those things that I thought poetry was.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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