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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
Carefully stir in the bourbon and brown sugar and continue to cook, stirring frequently, until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture resembles syrup, about 5 minutes.
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Meredith Wolf Schizer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Adding syrup to the fire, Chris makes both women pancakes the next morning, but Chelley gets an extra pancake and a flower.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Royel Otis doesn’t do flashy gimmicks, make bold, brash statements or lay down anything that could be confused with cheese or syrup.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
Tint homemade simple syrup with butterfly pea flower powder, then layer the indigo syrup with milk, boba pearls, and a green matcha tea float.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
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Meredith Wolf Schizer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Adding syrup to the fire, Chris makes both women pancakes the next morning, but Chelley gets an extra pancake and a flower.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Royel Otis doesn’t do flashy gimmicks, make bold, brash statements or lay down anything that could be confused with cheese or syrup.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
Tint homemade simple syrup with butterfly pea flower powder, then layer the indigo syrup with milk, boba pearls, and a green matcha tea float.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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Rotwood approvingly sees no such sentimentality in Wednesday.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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There's a time to think like a minimalist, and a time to let sentimentality win.—
Tessa Cooper,
Southern Living,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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McBride is less interested in exploring another motivation for saving locks of hair: the particular sentimentalism that made people cherish the hair of loved ones, especially those who had died, or of honored forebears.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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While leaders of the nature-study movement warned against sentimentalism and make-believe, young readers were delighted by such tales.—
Jessica George,
JSTOR Daily,
25 June 2025
Noun
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There is nothing left now but rhythm and exhaustion and raw emotion and stardust bursting out of you.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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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 9 Sep. 2025.
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