gushy

adjective

ˈgə-shē

gushier; gushiest

Synonyms of gushy next

: marked by effusive sentimentality

gushily

ˈgə-shə-lē

adverb

gushiness

ˈgə-shē-nəs

noun

Example Sentences

a gushy review of a novel by an author who just happened to be a friend of the critic

Recent Examples on the Web Elsewhere in their office is an old chamois responsible for a shocking array of gushy sounds. —

Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2022 And in August of 2006, Barack Obama was winning gushy headlines in for his triumphal visit to his father’s ancestral home in Kenya. —

Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2022 Except the unfettered devotion in the latter is replaced by swooping strings and a gushy chorus that merely offer an antiseptic veneer. —

Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022 Despite the gushy National Socialist rhetoric, telling expressions of opinion emerge—a kind that speaks eloquently for the thoughts and feelings of one small unit of Germans around the Dunkirk perimeter. —

Robert Kershaw, WSJ, 29 July 2022 Hawn also paid tribute to Russell in a gushy Instagram post. —

Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 20 June 2022 This isn't the first time the home cook posted a gushy tribute to her son's latest achievements. —

Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2022 For some, the gushy card that person creates would be perfect. —

Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2022 Emblematic of the gushy, overly credulous business and tech journalism ascendant at the time, Fortune’s story touched off a media stampede that transformed Holmes, then 30, into a business superstar. —

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