(a.) Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
(2) Fatbergs build up on sewer roofs like mushy stalactites.
(3) Thirty-three patients (97%) had diarrhea, and properties of the stools were watery in twenty-four and mushy in nine.
(4) Terrified by the potential for offence, terrified also of giving the impression that any one line of thought was preferable to any other, the default position on every subject became a mushy relativism where every conceivable matter of opinion was deemed to be as valuable as any other.
(5) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
(6) The world leaders invited to dine by Queen Margrethe supped on turkey and mushy peas, and were serenaded by the Danish Royal Life Guards bands playing George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun.
(7) Last week he unveiled a house in Southwark made of 10 tonnes of wax bricks, which will be heated each morning over the coming month, until is is no more than a mushy puddle on the pavement.
(8) It is proposed that egg counts from 1- to 3-year-olds be multiplied by 0.3, those from 4- to 6-year-olds by 0.5, those from 7- to 9-year-olds by 0.6, and those from 10 to 12-year-olds by 0.7; differences in mean egg density among various fecal consistencies produced factors of 1, 1.5, 2, 3, and 3.5 by which the egg counts in formed, mushy-formed, mushy, mushy-diarrheic, and diarrheic feces should be increased.
(9) This report reviews the authors' experience with these injuries, focusing on the recognition and management of what the authors call "complex" DRUJ dislocations: dislocations characterized by obvious irreducibility, recurrent subluxation, or "mushy" reduction caused by soft tissue or bone interposition.
(10) Most of them kept records of three consecutive defecations, including stool form on a validated six point scale ranging from hard, round lumps to mushy.
(11) Mistaking the northern staple of mushy peas for a more metropolitan avocado dip, the urbane Mr Mandelson asked for "some of that guacamole" to accompany his haddock and chips.
(12) 'Share a meal of fish and chips with your family every day for around 10 weeks, with a couple of portions of mushy peas thrown in' "If the government just communicated with people in dry multi-page documents people would be saying they should do things in a fresh and modern way."
(13) He recently emerged from a serious heart attack and, deciding that he was by nature resilient, indulged exactly the same appetites, sinking quantities of the bourbon supplied by a son who worked in the US; eating deep fried cod, chips and mushy peas on Brighton seafront, washed down with dry white wine rather than mugs of tea; resuming a full and fascinating love life that had included two marriages along the way, with two much-loved sons from each.
(14) The nuts bring clagginess and the fruit is too wet, so the result is soggy and mushy with a mouth-coating trace of clay, a sort of repulsive pabulum whose problem is not its flavour but its mouthfeel.
(15) The stage was thus set for Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to emerge as Labour’s moderate healers – Cooper with a defiant defence of the spending record, and Burnham with a mushy appeal to the “heart of Labour”.
(16) Careful attention to these injuries during initial reduction attempts will reveal "mushy" or unobtainable reductions, an important indication for exploration for entrapped tendon, bone, or soft tissue.
(17) "It looks like there's going to be another mushy minestrone of a coalition.
(18) Trypanosome prevalence in cattle where G.tabaniformis appeared to be the main vector was 9.5% and 5.4% at the Mushie and OGAPROV ranches, respectively.
(19) Experiments performed on dogs to determine their stomach contents after death indicated that, in high-temperature conditions, for example, the ingested chunks of meat are reduced to a mushy-sloppy consistency after three days, suggesting that digestion will proceed to some extent after death as putrefaction continues.
(20) Maria Ellis's stuffed tofu Ginger beer-battered stuffed tofu with Asian mushy peas.
Musty
Definition:
(n.) Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.
(n.) Spoiled by age; rank; stale.
(n.) Dull; heavy; spiritless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some 26 years later Laake can still recall every detail of the trial: his aching wrists cuffed behind his back; the musty smell of the courtroom; the steely voice of the young female judge.
(2) Ingestion by hens and broilers of specific chloroanisols present in some wood shavings used in poultry cages can result in a musty taste in poultry products.
(3) The commercial product may have a light-yellow to cream color with a musty odor (Hartley and Kidd, 1983).
(4) But going by the musty books lining the walls, it does look like this new incarnation might have more of an intellectual, introspective bent.
(5) The symbolism was not hard to fathom: here, cooed the pages showing candidates at home, was a bright, straightforward, modern party; an explosion of youthful colour along the musty, dark-wood corridors of traditional Spanish politics.
(6) Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways.
(7) Stay away from the courtyard rooms, which are darker and can get musty in the tropical heat.
(8) Stored in a musty room upstairs are thousands of historical posters and documents that he hopes one day to store in a national archive.
(9) Untreated PKU causes severe mental retardation, musty odor, hyperactivity, seizures, eczema and hypopigmentation.
(10) In common with most Arab countries, public access to official information in Egypt is almost nonexistent, with state archives buried beneath a musty web of security restrictions and a deeply entrenched government culture of destroying or hiding any records that could prove awkward.
(11) No one contracted the disease who had not something to do with this musty straw.
(12) Cultures of Penicillium expansum produce a musty, earthy odor.
(13) The women, who are here to promote their Girls Matter campaign, insist they can’t talk politics because they represent a charity and have to be neutral, but they can’t disguise their enthusiasm for this strange, musty old world.
(14) Moulds or fungi that grow in grains and seeds during storage and transport cause germination decrease, visible mouldiness, discoloration, musty or sour odours, caking, chemical and nutritional changes, reduction in processing quality, and form of mycotoxins.
(15) Both oct-1-en-3-ol and cis-2-octen-1-ol are thought to be responsible for the characteristic musty-fungal odor of certain fungi; the latter compound may be a useful chemical index of fungal growth.
(16) The characteristic non-specific uptake of dye from media into the colonies and their musty or earthy odour rendered them easily distinguishable from other organisms.
(17) Regal and robed, the justices of the US supreme court often cite musty edicts of centuries past and sheaves of legal reasoning accumulated over the decades.
(18) The saving grace is that he can present himself as a new broom, albeit with Augean stables rather than musty warehouses to be cleaned out.
(19) F. A. LINNIK (1938) noted that immediately before falling sick patients had been in close contact with musty straw.
(20) Updike typically gives us every beautifully rendered detail: the fall of morning light, the "musty cidery smell" of pine needles, the texture of the blanket they lie on.