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.
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Meg Linehan,
The Athletic,
10 Aug. 2024
To that end, yes, honeymoon phases are gushy (and self-absorbed).
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
19 June 2024
Anything to keep those gushy feelings on repeat in your body!
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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.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
15 Dec. 2023
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gushy
Adjective
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Toxic fumes are leaking into airplanes and sickening passengers and crew members at an alarming rate, according to a September 2025 report by The Wall Street Journal.
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The concept of this many women vying for West is somewhat sickening to me.
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Remove the drain cover, clear any visible hair clogs, and soak the cover in white vinegar to remove soapy residue.
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Soak it in hot, soapy water for about 20 minutes, then give it another good scrub to remove any remaining buildup.
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The sunscreen is a great match for dry, oily, and combination skin, as well as complexions predisposed to breakouts and rosacea.
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Fatty Fish Fatty or oily fish are fish and other seafood that naturally store oil all over their bodies, including their tissues and around their guts.
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Though mighty hagiographic, McPhee’s ability to break down a player’s gifts makes a poetic case for the game.
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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.
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The unctuous and sweet char siu pork jowl is interspersed with green apple pressed with lime and ginger for a bright and crisp counter to the fatty pig.
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Made with the unctuous 8-percent-fat milk of the water buffalo—animals that may have arrived in the area via the Normans by way of Sicily, or perhaps by the Goths coming from Central Asia—buffalo mozzarella has been produced at least since the twelfth century.
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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.
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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.
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Finns may not be known for demonstrative cheerfulness, nor necessarily for being makers of excessively happy music.
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In fact, Scherzer was way more demonstrative, screaming at Blue Jays manager John Schneider in Game 4 of the ALCS.
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His widow doesn’t exactly look too broken up; less than a week after his death, Lee spots her snuggling with Dale’s brother Donald, an oleaginous candidate for governor played by Kyle MacLachlan.
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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.
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“Gushy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gushy. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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