(a.) Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheep infection trials indicate that the PLD-negative C. pseudotuberculosis strain (Toxminus) is incapable of inducing caseous lymphadentis (cheesy gland) even at doses two logs higher than that at which the wild-type strain produces the disease.
(2) And an incredibly cheesy Budweiser advert uses the bond between a man and his dog to promote road safety.
(3) Protection levels as high as 95% and 97.5% were attained in broilers vaccinated subcutaneously and no undesirable lesions or cheesy masses formed under the skin in the back of the necks of broilers.
(4) It might sound like the stuff of cheesy softcore but the film is subtle, controlled and low on nudity – the trappings of decor are treated more fetishistically than women's bodies – and Weigert's performance anchors the action in psychological complexity.
(5) He hasn’t stopped eating ice-cream, milk shakes, Cheesy Wotsits and chocolate.
(6) It seems that dystopian worlds create more drama and while I wouldn't say the original film was cheesy, it was camp.
(7) When these two children were examined bronchoscopically the tracheobronchial tree was found to be filled with white, cheesy material.
(8) In 2001 the retro-futurist Discovery revived appreciation for the kind of glossy soft-rock and sentimental 80s pop that most bands deemed too cheesy. "
(9) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(10) It feels like an award in itself, and before you just brush that off as being as cheesy as it sounds, after having been in the business for 20 years, this is the closest I’ve gotten to my childhood version of ‘making it’.
(11) So, if the only indulgence that is viable, that is within budget, that will not mean you have to walk to work, is a Styrofoam container of cheesy chips, the answer is a thunderous "YES".
(12) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
(13) Like so much of what Cage says and does, this should be cheesy, but somehow it isn't.
(14) Some are stylistic and structural: a fondness for bifurcated storytelling; characters and actors that shift from film to film; a tip of the hat to the cheesy Thai TV of his youth.
(15) The moussaka (£8.50) is heavenly: crunchy and cheesy on top, and intensely savoury below.
(16) And that schmaltzy Bronner's experience wouldn't be complete without lashings of cheesy slogans.
(17) "I mean, my children sometimes have Cheesy Wotsits, but my children are perfectly thin because they don't have them all the time.
(18) Capital Radio's drivetime DJ Lucio has been named as the new presenter of the UK's commercial chart show, Hit 40 UK, and has immediately thrown down the gauntlet to BBC Radio 1 saying its chart is "dismal, bland and cheesy".
(19) Dialogue Young Guns does a generally enjoyable line in cheesy, quotable, tough-guy speak.
(20) The Bee Gees became cheesy, Chic became cheesy, and by the 80s disco was a dirty word.
Sappy
Definition:
(superl.) Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
(superl.) Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
(superl.) Weak in intellect.
(superl.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.
(a.) Musty; tainted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genius of The Muppet Show was that it was ironic without being cynical, sharp without being cruel, sweet without being sappy , anarchic without being too chaotic, timely without being dated.
(2) The smell should have been sappy and muddy and of the sea.
(3) In any case they hit dangerously sappy scenes like this one out of the park: LG: Will you kiss me?
(4) A common theme in the comments expressing dismay at my shameful acceptance of fatherhood is that people go all sappy when they have a baby; ergo, every word I wrote from this point on would be shot through with gooey, complacent sentiment.
(5) Kobe Bryant’s last hurrah as a professional basketball player featured everything that was glorious (and maddening) about No24, plus countless sappy tribute videos.
(6) He created the sappy but much-loved Felicity in 1998.