soppy

Example Sentences

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But he does an excellent job of squaring the fading man before his eyes—the soppy grandparent and proud father—with the “shadowy, mysterious, sometimes frightening, often absent” stock figure from his youth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

"I spend most Monday evenings in tears and I'm not a particularly soppy person."

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2022

The lyrics are soppy, but Jacques delivers the maternal sentiment with a thunderous passion worthy of Jennifer Holliday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2022

During “Walking in the Rain,” she finds a way to telegraph her soppy heartsickness over boomy thunderclaps.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2022

This didn’t seem so soppy; it just looked like carer stuff, because by now there was something uncertain about her walk, and I wondered if I’d badly underestimated how weak she still was.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro