What's the difference between loppy and soppy?

Loppy


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.

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Soppy


Definition:

  • (a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
  • (2) Thirteen years later Raca has written an account of her own experiences, which cannot be described as remotely soppy.
  • (3) The author seems to revel in it, killing off popular, morally spotless characters knowing his readers (with their soppy, modern notions of fairness) won't see it coming.
  • (4) She took her job as an assistant school principal extremely seriously and had no time for what she saw as the soppy self-indulgence of her husband's approach to things.
  • (5) Or "Soppy chocolate labrador frolicking in babbling brook weekend".
  • (6) This isn’t down to some soppy benevolence on the part of TV producers.
  • (7) Fast-forward, and Charli XCX is sharing massive US No 1 hits with Iggy Azalea (the super-catchy Fancy) – and getting songs on The Fault in Our Stars soundtrack (the pugnaciously soppy Boom Clap).
  • (8) Supposed to be a full-on face and this one you walk away from.” Derogatory remarks are made about most of their co-defendants, whom they refer to as either a “soppy cunt” or a “fucking idiot”.
  • (9) (“This is so bogus!” he exclaimed, when they asked him to stand in front of an old haunt and look soppy.)
  • (10) Boring, pretentious and a bit soppy - like a printed, rhyming version of Bono.
  • (11) All of this wasteful soppy girly stuff interferes with the male scientist’s duty to pursue truth with a single-minded purpose.
  • (12) "He didn't want soppy ," he says of Leonard Bernstein, with whom he argued over the lyrics of West Side Story .
  • (13) Not so long ago when other people wrote words like that I would roll my eyes at their soppy bullshit.
  • (14) An eight-part tribute to the 1939-1945 pluck of our agricultural predecessors, it appears to have borrowed its MO from Abigail; draping its lovely soppy labradoriness over our slippers and nuzzling into our lap with its damp-nosed facts and historical bonhomie, even though it's actually a cow and, as such, has ruined the carpet.
  • (15) But even my soppy eyes are clear enough to see that 90s style was a decade-long mistake that desperately does not need reviving.
  • (16) They're also – rather amazingly, given that they've just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary – still as soppy about each other as two lovebirds.
  • (17) They're what our government seems to regard as soppy humanities, barely worthy of inclusion in the school curriculum.
  • (18) Stannard wrote of the friendship as Spark "learning to love again", but Jardine thinks this is a bit soppy.

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