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mushy

/muhsh-ee, moosh-ee/US // ˈmʌʃ i, ˈmʊʃ i //UK // (ˈmʌʃɪ) //

烂泥,烂醉如泥,烂泥扶不上墙,烂醉

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    mush·i·er, mush·i·est.

    • : resembling mush; pulpy.
    • : Informal. overly emotional or sentimental: mushy love letters.

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Examples

  • Our mushy brains seem a far cry from the solid silicon chips in computer processors, but scientists have a long history of comparing the two.

  • When something is not easily measured, it often gets talked about in mushy or ideological terms.

  • The road salt makes a mushy, corrosive paste that is flung universally about the under-and over-sides of every vehicle.

  • Persecuted is a ludicrously mushy political thriller, but the fact that it can find an audience is downright terrifying.

  • He is no mushy moderate, but an Obama-loathing, gubmint-hating, tax-cutting, gun-toting, education-cutting conservative.

  • Capability is a mushy line, and it can take a country years to go from capability to producing an actual warhead.

  • Those who favor bipartisan cooperation are often dismissed as mushy moderates.

  • Such words cannot be indefinite, mushy words; they must be definite, firm words.

  • You had accumulated a large load and were in a pretty mushy condition.

  • Well, take this awful bunch of mushy slush and read it through, and then try to make a decent half-column story out of it.

  • Something mushy and heavily soft like raised dough leaned against Jim's leg and chewed his trousers with a yeasty growl.

  • But in any case the letter should not be long, nor should it be crammed with sad quotations and mushy sentiment.