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.