gushy
given to or marked by excessively effusive talk, behavior, etc.
Origin of gushy
1Other words for gushy
Other words from gushy
- gush·i·ly, adverb
- gush·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby gushy
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How to use gushy in a sentence
It's true that Berman's view of her subject is adulatory, even gushy.
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I was selling forty thousand a month; I believe more than gushy ever reached; and so they dissolved parliament.
Endymion | Benjamin Disraeli"gushy is not in society," said Mr. Seymour Hicks in a solemn tone of contemptuous pity.
Endymion | Benjamin DisraeliAs for Mabel, she was one of them gushy, goo-gooey kind of girls, and she was as struck with the shebang as her dad.
Cape Cod Stories | Joseph C. Lincoln
A gushy, giggly young party Marion is, but she turns out to be quite a help.
The House of Torchy | Sewell FordAnd gushy takes an amiable view of this world of hypocrisy and plunder.
Endymion | Benjamin Disraeli
British Dictionary definitions for gushy
/ (ˈɡʌʃɪ) /
informal displaying excessive admiration or sentimentality
Derived forms of gushy
- gushily, adverb
- gushiness, noun
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