slushy
/'slʌʃi/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Excessively sentimental or emotional in a way that seems insincere or exaggerated: Describes language, art, or behavior that is overly sweet, emotional, or romantic in a cloying or tasteless manner.
- Consisting of, resembling, or covered with melting snow or watery mud: Describes a substance, typically snow or ground, that is partially melted, wet, and semi-liquid.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (Sentimental):
- I find those greeting card poems too slushy.
- The movie's ending was criticized for being overly slushy.
- Adjective (Melting Snow/Mud):
- The roads are dangerous because they are slushy.
- After the thaw, the yard became a slushy mess.
Advanced Usage
- Used figuratively to describe overly emotional content:
- His speech avoided slushy sentimentality and focused on practical solutions.
- Used to describe a consistency or condition:
- The ice cream had melted into a slushy consistency.
Variants and Related Words
- Slush (noun): Partially melted snow or ice; also can mean sentimental writing.
- The car got stuck in the slush.
- Slushiness (noun): The quality or state of being slushy.
- The slushiness of the path made walking difficult.
Synonyms
- For sentimental meaning: Mawkish, maudlin, bathetic, mushy, schmaltzy, sentimental.
- For melting snow meaning: Semi-liquid, watery, mushy, sodden.
Related Phrases/Idioms
- No common idioms directly use "slushy," but the noun "slush" is used:
- Slush fund: A reserve of money used for illicit or corrupt purposes, originally referring to money from the sale of watery, slush-like grease on ships.
- The investigation uncovered a political slush fund.
Adjective
- effusively or insincerely emotional
- a bathetic novel
- maudlin expressions of sympathy
- mushy effusiveness
- a schmaltzy song
- sentimental soap operas
- slushy poetry
- being or resembling melting snow
- slushy snow
- deep slushy mud