squishier; squishiest
1
: being soft, yielding, and usually damp
The ground was wet and squishy.
2
: not firm, steady, or fixed : soft: such as
a
: lenient sense 1
To skeptics, all such talk may seem … squishy. For decades, CEOs … prized toughness above all.—
Geoff Colvin
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b
: imprecise
squishy estimates
squishiness
noun
Examples of squishy in a Sentence
The ground was wet and squishy.
those are awfully squishy estimates for the final cost of a new football stadium
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—Drew Pittock, USA Today, 16 June 2026
This squishy honor of a marshmallow doesn’t even require devouring it—the indicator that psychologists took as the signal of its depleted future life.
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That means, depending on the particular lake, the water might be filtering through limestone underground before emerging, or the bottom of the lake might be mostly limestone, not squishy mud.
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The shark, which is about 12 feet long on average, has a pink, squishy body and comically large nose hiding a set of razor-sharp teeth underneath.
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Drew Pittock, USA Today, 16 June 2026
This squishy honor of a marshmallow doesn’t even require devouring it—the indicator that psychologists took as the signal of its depleted future life.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
That means, depending on the particular lake, the water might be filtering through limestone underground before emerging, or the bottom of the lake might be mostly limestone, not squishy mud.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
The shark, which is about 12 feet long on average, has a pink, squishy body and comically large nose hiding a set of razor-sharp teeth underneath.
—Mark Osborne, CBS News, 12 June 2026
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“Squishy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squishy. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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