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sappy

/sap-ee/US // ˈsæp i //UK // (ˈsæpɪ) //

烦人,烦闷,烦人的,烦闷的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    sap·pi·er, sap·pi·est.

    • : abounding in sap, as a plant.
    • : full of vitality and energy.
    • : Slang. silly or foolish.
    • : Slang. overly sentimental: It’s one of those sappy romantic ballads.

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Examples

  • Whether you consider it touching or sappy, the movie is a vision of what baseball can be in our minds and memories, along with what it actually is.

  • There was no mulling around with me potentially making it worse by being wishy washy and sappy.

  • The Fast & Furious movies are sweet and earnest and sappy, and they don’t particularly care if you know that.

  • Though filled with darkness as well as light, with loneliness as well as bar-hopping, his work isn’t sappy.

  • I always looked back on it as a breakup album, but after re-listening now as a sappy 34-year-old, it’s a lot more.

  • Natalia comes around after a bit of ruminating to sappy music.

  • The trailer was too sappy to go with my friends and the poster was too steamy to go with my parents.

  • The lyrics range from sappy to explicit, but the level of lunacy is nothing if not consistent.

  • Not in a sappy, ‘Oh my God I totally love you way,’ but in a way that reinforces other aspects of my personality.

  • Dropping off Haley at school could have been really dewy and sappy.

  • "A sappy pea-vine and a dried pea-stick," said Milford, pointing toward George and his wife.

  • And what does the wise, sagacious, sappy, perspiring man of wisdom like yourself who knows a thing or two do?

  • He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.

  • Sappy's eyes were not the sinister black beads of the wily Red-man, but a washed-out blue.

  • At noon Sappy set out nothing but dirty dishes, and explained that so long as each got his own it was all right.