What's the difference between cockamamie and sappy?

Cockamamie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The apotheosis of the cockamamie logic surrounding the sale, is the idea that some of the City institutions set to make a killing may own our pensions.
  • (2) Most of the jokes about Trump’s cockamamie policies tried to dismiss them with a chuckle.
  • (3) They're so clearly under the influence of the fossil fuel industry that they're coming up with cockamamie solutions which aren't solutions.
  • (4) The waters are further muddied by this process, masquerading as balance, of giving time and a soapbox to every cockamamie statement any self-serving politician cares to make, then labelling the sum of these parts "the truth about immigration".
  • (5) I don’t share his politics on many things, but he was elected on that cockamamie system that they’ve got.

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.

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