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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 Higgin’s Swizzle Instead of using the traditional syrup, Sandals mixologists use falernum, a sweet, spiced liqueur that has ginger, lime, almond, and clove flavors, sometimes with an extra kick of Caribbean spices.
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Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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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Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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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The heavy-handed sentimentality is a welcome, necessary respite.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Practically the only star who could handle this awkward blend of sincerity and sentimentality was Robin Williams, and rarely has a film premise seemed better suited to his skills.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
7 Sep. 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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Don't hide from the layers of emotions and frustrations.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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King's works have always run on big, outsized emotions, and De Palma, with all his extra-ness, may have been the perfect director to first bring the author's work to the screen.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At the same time, no one in metal was funnier, more in touch with his own bathos, more post–Spinal Tap, in a sense, than Ozzy, especially in his shambling-paterfamilias incarnation on MTV’s reality show The Osbournes.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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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 17 Sep. 2025.
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