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English Dictionary: mushy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mushy
adj
  1. having the consistency of mush
  2. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
    Synonym(s): bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mushy \Mush"y\, a.
      Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and
      effusive; weakly sentimental.
  
               She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. --G. Eliot.
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