(a.) Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters.
(a.) Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I have brought some special friends with me," she gushed.
(2) The populations of the big settlement blocs of Maale Adumim, Gush Etzion and Ariel were stable over the past year.
(3) Each duodenal gush was identified and its value calculated on the basis of pre-established threshold and timing criteria which eliminate shifts in the baseline and artefacts due to the presence of particles.
(4) The withdrawal from Sinai due in April has antagonised the Gush Emunim and other nationalist groups who have threatened physically to obstruct it.
(5) A few weeks ago, an official from the Cabinet Office gushed on his blog about a jolly exciting trip, a kind of pilgrimage, to Amazon and Google in Seattle and San Francisco.
(6) Fans of the character should therefore take some solace from McWeeny's gushing review of Man of Steel .
(7) The oil's back too, gushing forth on Southfork ranch within seconds of the start of the new pilot.
(8) It was equipment failure that caused Shell's high-pressure Trans-Niger pipeline to rupture on 28 August 2008, gushing an estimated 2,000 barrels of oil per day into Bodo for weeks.
(9) She just wasn't at all like any of the interviews that I'd researched: she didn't gush, she was serious and still.
(10) On Reading’s website, Nick Candy gushes: “NRPR [Neil Reading PR] has guided us in formulating an ambitious strategy to help boost our profile and meet our niche target audience.
(11) Gushing reports of the city’s thriving creative scene, green spaces and quality of living have earned the place the nickname Hypezig, and some locals fear its reputation as “the better Berlin” may attract private investors, and drive up property prices.
(12) Shani Simkovitz, director of the Gush Etzion Foundation, shows the trailer for the new feature film about the massacre.
(13) She is impossible to dislike and I confess that I tried yet in the occasionally bitchy world of books she is nicknamed Lady Gush.
(14) Before a ferociously red crowd, in which the Australian fans, scattered throughout the stadium in little blobs of yellow, struggled to assert themselves in any meaningful way, the Chileans started with their customary disregard for defence, a line of five attackers purring forward with gushing, almost smug intent.
(15) Daniel Hamilton, a Conservative European election candidate, tweeted: " Ronnie Biggs was a violent criminal who evaded facing justice for decade s. I find today's gushing eulogies slightly offensive."
(16) "It's cheaper than water," said one motorist, pointing out that bottled water costs far more than the 95-octane gasoline gushing into his Ford Explorer.
(17) Old colleagues including Bravo, Karan, and the former Burberry finance director Stacey Cartwright are gushing in their praise for his abilities and leadership qualities.
(18) Secretin-induced flow is only a trickle in these patients, but when the limiting membranous web is cut, pancreatic secretions gush forth.
(19) Within hours of Xi’s landmark tour the party’s total control of China’s state media was on full show in a series of gushing reviews.
(20) Following the discovery of the missing Israeli's bodies on Monday, new details about the teenagers' abduction and murder 19 days ago while hitching home from West Bank religious schools have emerged in the Hebrew press, including the fact that investigators believe that the teenagers were killed within a few minutes of getting into a stolen car near Gush Etzion junction.
Smarmy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I didn’t go to Eton and get all that smarmy, charming education, I’m afraid.
(2) From someone junior at work, “nice dress” can be smarmy; from someone senior, it can be faintly pervy.
(3) Pardew has been sent from the touchline and will be in huge trouble for this - a manager with a history of touchline bust-ups against assorted opposite numbers and officials, his usual smarmy post-match apology is highly unlikely to save his bacon this time.
(4) After the United Nations reports on war crimes , the supply of Australian vessels to the Sri Lankan Navy to prevent the departure of people who want to escape, and the revelation that a former Sri Lankan military officer was overseeing the interment of Tamil asylum seekers on Manus Island, there was something about the smarminess of the exchange in that picture that caused me additional disgust and embarrassment.
(5) Or smarmy seducers wanting the fancy food as close to the bedroom as possible without the expense of a hotel.
(6) So the radio spot takes the form of a mock game show, voiced by a smarmy-sounding host who goes under the moniker of Wink Taxandspend (hilarious!).
(7) She's very warm but not smarmy, she's never impolite, she has the openness of someone who is never expecting high office – which she isn't, apparently, due to those pesky grammar schools.
(8) The Welsh secretary, Peter Hain, said: "We must not behave as if a Tory win is inevitable," and argued that unless the party picked itself up "we might as well wrap conference up now, go home and wait for David Cameron to give that smarmy smile of his from the steps of No 10".