GUSHY Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

gushy

adjective

ˈgə-shē

Definition of gushy

as in sickening

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

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Recent Examples of gushy There’s no better time to embrace the mushy gushy than in the first few moments after winning gold medals together. — Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024 To that end, yes, honeymoon phases are gushy (and self-absorbed). — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2024 Anything to keep those gushy feelings on repeat in your body! — Carina Hsieh, SELF, 30 Jan. 2024 The movie falters here and there, lapsing into sentimentality—with accompanying gushy music—during a wedding scene, and that in-person confrontation between Monk and Sintara happens only because Jefferson has overcomplicated the story’s plot. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for gushy

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Adjective

Wildlife officials had found that many of these poisons worked their way through the food chain, sickening and killing owls, raptors, coyotes and mountain lions.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
More importantly, the China business, long a stalwart, started a sickening double-digit decline.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of sickening

Adjective

The sultry, soapy Netflix series — based on the 2021 novel by May Cobb — follows Sophie (Brittany Snow), a Boston transplant who moves to Texas and falls in with an elite group of women led by Margo (Malin Akerman).

— Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 22 Aug. 2026
Be careful to not use too much, or you’ll be left with a soapy mess.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of soapy

Adjective

As the coconut milk breaks and separates (cracks), look for traces of yellow-green oil bubbling at the edge or a slightly dark yellow-green oily film on top.

— Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
Every touch seems to leave behind an oily smudge on stainless steel.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of oily

Adjective

Though mighty hagiographic, McPhee’s ability to break down a player’s gifts makes a poetic case for the game.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
While these celebrity docs are hagiographic and formulaic, the interviews with Nadal and family and rivals like Federer and Novak Djokovic do push beyond the surface.

— Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026

Definition of hagiographic

Adjective

Played with unctuous authority by the multilingual Danish performer Claes Bang, Kersten claims to have used his influence to obtain the freedom of thousands of concentration camp prisoners, and is obsessed with winning a Nobel Prize.

— Alissa Simon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
The uni—or sea urchin—come from Hokkaido and have an unctuous, egg yolk richness.

— Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Midwest Living, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of unctuous

Adjective

Besides being a record of events, the work is a crafty portrayal of kingship, presenting Akbar in an adulatory tone, as an exemplary and divinely favored ruler.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
Reggie’s solution is to hire Arthur Tobin (Daniel Radcliffe), an Oscar-winning documentarian, to make an adulatory film about him, changing public perception and opening new doors.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Jan. 2026

Definition of adulatory

Adjective

Afterward, closer Mason Miller was as demonstrative as ever after his batterymate recorded the final out of his 30th save.

— Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
Where Tarik Skubal is a roaring marvel, Casey Mize is rarely demonstrative on the mound.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 26 July 2026

Definition of demonstrative

Adjective

One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.

— David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
Ted Cruz, the perennial front-runner, is smug and oleaginous—hated equally by his colleagues and the public.

— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022

Definition of oleaginous

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