Adjective
- 1. drippy, drizzly, wet (vs. dry)
- usage: wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day"
- 2. drippy, leaky (vs. tight)
- usage: leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet"
- 3. bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy, emotional (vs. unemotional)
- usage: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
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