[syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Soppy \Sop"py\, a.
Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or
sloppy.
[1913 Webster]
It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy.
--Dickens.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
soppy
adj 1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the
door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's
sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: sodden, soppy]
2: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a
schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
[syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish,
kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental,
soppy, soupy, slushy]