What's the difference between soppy and soupy?

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.

Soupy


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling soup; souplike.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Oporto authorities pumped poisons into the university grounds where the Interocean II had drilled and left the earth slick and soupy.
  • (2) The clinical findings in 37 sheep and goats with acute ruminal lactic acidosis included a disturbed general condition characterised by anorexia, apathy, teeth grinding and muscle twitching, ruminal stasis, and the excretion of soupy or watery faeces.
  • (3) My favourite is pasta e fagioli, pasta with beans, soupie thing, gorgeous.
  • (4) And by 10am, it was soupy with humidity, too, so I headed for the cool and calm of the Metropolitan Cathedral.
  • (5) The political intrigue and conspiracy that normally hang heavy as the soupy winter smog here were leavened slightly by the unexpected sense of real competition, the growing possibility of democratic choice.
  • (6) He last came to festival with the soupy Biutiful back in 2010 and appears to have all but booked himself into this year's competition.
  • (7) They made weird, soupy music that wore its influences lightly – a spot of Gang of Four here, a dash of the Velvet Underground there, with guitar jangle holding the whole thing together.

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