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词汇 sappiness
释义 sappiness
noun[ U ]
 informaldisapprovinguk /ˈsæp.i.nəs/ us /ˈsæp.i.nəs/
the state of being extremely emotional in an embarrassing way:
The story expresses powerful emotions, without resorting to sappiness.
He manages to convey emotion without crossing over into sappiness.
The story is told with less sappiness and sentimentality than you might expect.
Her writing is gritty, and the script manages to steer clear of sappiness.
Sometimes the band go too far in the direction of sappiness.
The film's sense of humour keeps the sappiness at arm's length.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sentimental and over-emotional
cloying
cloyingly
gauzily
gushily
gushy
mawkishness
mush
mushily
mushy
sappy
sentimentalist
sentimentality
sick-making
sloppily
sloppiness
slushy
syrupy
treacly
twee
tweeness

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