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Meanings of drippiness in English

Catalan
sensibleria
Spanish
superficialidad

Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.

        sensibleria
        Synonyms
        Examples for "sentimentality"
        Examples for "sentimentality"
        1
        My grandmother was not given to sentiment, and certainly not shtetl sentimentality.
        Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
        2
        One might question a coda that teeters on the edge of sentimentality.
        Reuters
        3
        The next moment, the grave, shy countryman had smiled at his sentimentality.
        'Way Down East / A Romance of New England Life
        4
        She seemed displeased at being surprised in the very act of sentimentality.
        Monsieur de Camors — Volume 2
        5
        A beggar, by Jove, and all in consequence of my d-d sentimentality.
        Vanity Fair
        1
        This sloppiness speaks to one of the true tragedies of the case.
        News.com.au
        2
        And one thing Honor had learned long ago was that sloppiness spread.
        Echoes Of Honor
        3
        Their complaints about the slowness and sloppiness of the service were loud.
        Dayworld Breakup
        4
        In the real world, visual cues correct any sloppiness in sensing movements.
        Wired
        5
        There were moments of sloppiness combined with the sublime in England's fielding.
        The Guardian
        1
        Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        2
        He was fundamentally normal-fundamentallywholesome-withno trace of mawkishness in his nature.
        The Seventh Noon
        3
        His songs were positive and profound and often romantic without mawkishness.
        The Irish Times
        4
        It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.
        The Guardian
        5
        And wedging it into a Christmas context of peace and harmony risks mawkishness.
        The Irish Times
        1
        What's most shocking about these 'buds is the absolute lack of mushiness or blurred sound.
        Wired
        2
        The mushiness in the air prevented the drying.
        Chef
        3
        Then he went home, snarling about my mushiness.
        Sunny Slopes
        4
        Red lentils, which require no soaking before cooking, will fall quickly into a bland mushiness soaking up the flavours that surround it.
        Radio NZ
        5
        Night and day, not daring to stop for fear of the imminent freeze-up, they dared to run, an increasing mushiness of ice running with them.
        The Red One
        1
        Not that a little soupiness would be the end of the world.
        The Guardian
        Translations for drippiness