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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
Their first creation, a sugar syrup called Assila, caught on with bakers.
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Each bar also contained a dark chocolate coating made with cocoa sweetener, vegetable dietary fiber, maltitol syrup, soy nuggets, soy protein isolate, chopped cocoa cookie, sunflower oil, and sorbitol syrup.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 29 May 2025
You Might Consume Hidden Calories and Added Sugar Coffee drinks from coffee shops or convenience stores often contain sweeteners, creams, and syrups.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
LeRoy Chan, Raffles’s assistant director of food and beverage marketing, stepped away from the sculptural brass bar to deliver the mixture of Seedlip Spice 94, miso, orgeat, gum and demerara syrups, and a dab’ll-do-ya of extravagant orange-blossom water.
—Adam Erace, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2025
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Each bar also contained a dark chocolate coating made with cocoa sweetener, vegetable dietary fiber, maltitol syrup, soy nuggets, soy protein isolate, chopped cocoa cookie, sunflower oil, and sorbitol syrup.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 29 May 2025
You Might Consume Hidden Calories and Added Sugar Coffee drinks from coffee shops or convenience stores often contain sweeteners, creams, and syrups.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
LeRoy Chan, Raffles’s assistant director of food and beverage marketing, stepped away from the sculptural brass bar to deliver the mixture of Seedlip Spice 94, miso, orgeat, gum and demerara syrups, and a dab’ll-do-ya of extravagant orange-blossom water.
—Adam Erace, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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Beer, wine, dinner, coffee and a unique aesthetic ‘Unexpected benefit’ Former West Village resident and current Brooklynite Bria Schirripa remembers the wild days without much sentimentality.—
Cindy Augustine,
CNN Money,
14 June 2025
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Its sentimentality could easily come across as maudlin, its structure too confusing to follow.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2025
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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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This represents the triumph of emotion over legal reasoning.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2025
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But a tidal wave of emotions pushed the words buried deep in his chest to the shores of his lips.—
Jonathan Horwitz,
Oc Register,
20 June 2025
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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 Jul. 2025.
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