(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.
Syrupy
Definition:
(a.) Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.
(a.) Same as Sirup, Sirupy.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
(2) The result is a decadent pancake that has the syrupy sweetness associated with gulab jamun , jangiri and other Indian sweets.
(3) Let it bubble for a few minutes, or until it looks a bit more … well, syrupy.
(4) Continue until the liquid turns slightly syrupy, about 5 or 6 minutes.
(5) Increase the heat under the pan and simmer the sauce until thickened and slightly syrupy.
(6) The acid production of 10 syrupy medicines sweetened with sucrose, fructose, sorbitol, xylitol and saccharin or with a combination of these was tested.
(7) Eight weeks after BP's well ruptured, the full impact on marine life became increasingly visible with images of dead and dying hermit crab and brown pelicans trapped and weighed down in dark syrupy oil while spawning of Atlantic bluefin tuna is threatened in the Gulf of Mexico – only one of two places in the world where this happens.
(8) Details: thedoctorsorders.com Enter the sublime chambers: Five groundbreaking J Dilla productions Common: Heat (Geffen, 2000) The aptly named Heat vibrates with a brilliantly thick, syrupy Afrobeat feel that is the perfect midpoint between the shimmering burnt-sugar funk of Fela Kuti and the hammer-fall, chicken-scratch soul power of James Brown.
(9) Two sweeteners with a syrupy component, maltose and sorbitol, fell further away.
(10) On the tongue, well, it's an acquired taste: slightly metallic, syrupy sweet, a faint hint of orange and cream.
(11) Add the vinegar, cider, thyme and sugar and reduce over a medium heat until the liquid becomes syrupy.
(12) 'Syrupy' solutions of liquid linear polyacrylamide (> or = 10%T, 0%C) appear to be excellent for fractionation of oligonucleotides and, potentially, for DNA sequencing.
(13) 1D-1,3,4,5-Tetra-O-allyl-myo-inositol and the above described, relevant diaste reoisomers were converted into 1D-2,6-di-O-benzyl-myo-inositol which gave the syrupy octabenzyl ester of 1D-2,6-di-O-benzyl-myo-inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate.
(14) When the mixture is syrupy, add the apple and cook until the apple is soft and then add the mustard.
(15) His early 60s white R&B band the Fairlanes included guitarist Billy Sherrill, the producer who later pioneered the 1970s "countrypolitan" sound by laying syrupy strings and a whole lot of rhinestones on George'n'Tammy and Charlie Rich, while lead singer Dan Penn , along with fellow FAMEr Spooner Oldham and others, later wrote some of the greatest soul songs of the 60s, including The Dark End Of The Street.
(16) Churning out that syrupy gloop is all very well Ant, but it won't put £378 in my wallet.
(17) He didn't require a translation, but responded by asking, in a syrupy Viennese accent, " Was ist die Frage? "
(18) For comparison, rabbit antisera were also produced against glucagon polymer (GA-10) and syrupy glucagon fibrils (PGA-2).
(19) Racemic 1,2,4-tri-O-benzyl-5,6-O-isopropylidene-myo-inositol was prepared by a new route involving crotyl (but-2-enyl) ethers and converted into the (-)-omega-camphanates to give the pure crystalline 1L-diastereoisomer and the chirally impure, syrupy 1D-diastereoisomer.
(20) Parents gave daily doses of syrupy medications and elixirs 3-4 times a day and at least two of these doses were given just before or during a designated nap or bedtime.