mushy

Speech parts

1. mushy - Adjective

2. mushy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.

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Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together. Jimmy Wales

You get the initial script, and then things sort of change here and there, but the whole thing is this sort of mushy collaboration, which I love. Kelly Marie Tran

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with. Kenny Chesney

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy. Laura Schlessinger

I notice(d) a little letter in the paper the other day saying that 'Come on John that (watermelon) stuff goes back a few years ago, the modern terminology is avacados'. Hard green casing on the outside, soft and mushy on the inside, with a great big brown nut in the middle. John Anderson (Australian politician)

In India, cold weather is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. Mark Twain

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