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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being or resembling melting snow; "slushy snow"; "deep slushy mud"
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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (slushier; -est) Date: 1791 being, involving, or resembling slush: as a. full of or covered with slush <slushy streets> b. made up of or having the consistency of slush <slushy snow> <a slushy mixture> c. having a cheaply sentimental quality ; trashy <a slushy novel> • slushiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (slushier, slushiest) like slush; watery. Derivatives: slushiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slushy Slush"y, a. Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. ``A dark, drizzling, slushy day.'' --Blackw. Mag.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(slushier, slushiest) 1. Slushy ground is covered in dirty, wet snow. Here and there a drift across the road was wet and slushy. ADJ 2. If you describe a story or idea as slushy, you mean you dislike it because it is extremely romantic and sentimental. ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Sloshy, sludgy.

Moby Thesaurus

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