What's the difference between sappiness and sappy?
Sappiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being sappy; juiciness.
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.
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.