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also sirup
as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
a television show for toddlers that is nothing more than pure syrup
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Recent Examples of syrup
The berries are cooked and made into jam, syrup, and elderberry wine.
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Lauren David, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2025
This drink syrup recipe is a great way to use overripe bananas.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2025
This ultra-aged bourbon features old leather, tobacco, cherry syrup, roasted walnut, almond, fig, and seasoned oak notes.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
But unlike those, jelly nails are highly saturated and look almost as if they were dipped in some kind of magical, syrup potion.
—Irene Coltrinari, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2025
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Lauren David, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2025
This drink syrup recipe is a great way to use overripe bananas.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2025
This ultra-aged bourbon features old leather, tobacco, cherry syrup, roasted walnut, almond, fig, and seasoned oak notes.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
But unlike those, jelly nails are highly saturated and look almost as if they were dipped in some kind of magical, syrup potion.
—Irene Coltrinari, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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Creating character is not among Murphy and Robertson’s strengths, and their pivot to awkward sentimentality throws the whole negotiation into disarray.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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For a lot of Black dads, specifically those of a certain generation, life dealt them an unfairly tough hand, leaving them in a constant state of survival where feelings and sentimentality could be the difference between life and death.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
4 July 2024
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There are moments of levity scattered throughout, a necessity when dealing with subject matter as harsh and cold as inevitable mortality, but they're surgically placed to extract the most emotion out of the player.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Try to identify emotions beyond frustration, annoyance or other shades of anger.—
Caroline Fleck, Contributor,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Elsewhere, a black granite sarcophagus is meant to be an homage to AIDS victims; this, too, empties into bathos.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
14 June 2024
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Playing with comic bathos is a dangerous game when aiming for sincerity.—
David Benedict,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2024
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The whole thing strikes a less successful balance between Gunn's dark comic side and his inherent sappiness than The Suicide Squad, the best Guardians of the Galaxy movie to not actually feature the Guardians of the Galaxy.—
A.A. Dowd,
Chron,
28 Apr. 2023
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The playful tone, however, oscillates between self-referential nods to the incongruity of people suddenly bursting into song and holiday-movie sentimentality, when either a more bare-knuckled commitment to satire or an unabashed embrace of its sappiness would be in order.—
Brian Lowry,
CNN,
17 Nov. 2022
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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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