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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 syrup has been sold in stores nationwide and online.
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Annabelle Canela, Parents, 20 June 2025
In a shaker tin, muddle 6 of the raspberries, then add the honey syrup, lemon juice, and vodka.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 June 2025
Pair it with tickling cocktails, from the Roots + Seeds Gin and Tonic to Kitchen Garden Chilli Margaritas (made with homemade chili syrup).
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
The sweet sip combines blonde espresso with horchata syrup — a mix of cinnamon, vanilla and rice flavors — which are then shaken with ice and topped off with oat milk.
—Erin Clements, People.com, 27 May 2025
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Annabelle Canela, Parents, 20 June 2025
In a shaker tin, muddle 6 of the raspberries, then add the honey syrup, lemon juice, and vodka.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 June 2025
Pair it with tickling cocktails, from the Roots + Seeds Gin and Tonic to Kitchen Garden Chilli Margaritas (made with homemade chili syrup).
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
The sweet sip combines blonde espresso with horchata syrup — a mix of cinnamon, vanilla and rice flavors — which are then shaken with ice and topped off with oat milk.
—Erin Clements, People.com, 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
Noun
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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
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 2 Jul. 2025.
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