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Recent Examples of gushy To that end, yes, honeymoon phases are gushy (and self-absorbed). Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2024 Anything to keep those gushy feelings on repeat in your body! Carina Hsieh, SELF, 30 Jan. 2024 The movie falters here and there, lapsing into sentimentality—with accompanying gushy music—during a wedding scene, and that in-person confrontation between Monk and Sintara happens only because Jefferson has overcomplicated the story’s plot. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Dec. 2023 Her breezy, gushy style could give the sadness of her lyrics a sneaky potency. Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for gushy
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Adjective
  • Greater Boston communities at the center of the ongoing sanitation worker strike are taking Republic Services to court, seeking immediate relief as trash piles mount, attracting rats and giving off a sickening stench.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 17 July 2025
  • Members of the furry community around the globe teamed up to comb through the Telegram channel and find the perpetrators behind the sickening animal torture and abuse.
    Melissa Locker, Time, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • When Rudd, 55, appeared on Fallon's late night show to promote his new A24 movie Death of a Unicorn on Thursday, March 27, Fallon, 50, noted that Rudd has performed in just about every genre of film, television and theater one could imagine — except for the soapiest of soap operas.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • There is just cause for the soapier parts: Manet was married, and Morisot wed his brother.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Chain-drive ebikes can be a little too high maintenance for some, and reward you with oily clothes for your trouble.
    Paul Ridden July 22, New Atlas, 22 July 2025
  • Dermatologists named it one of the best ingredients for treating acne and oily skin.
    Cathy Cassata, Health, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Photo Gallery Feeling the heat, George accepts an offer to take the lead in a largely fictional and completely hagiographic biopic of (current) Egyptian President Al-Sisi.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 May 2025
  • Feeling the heat, George accepts an offer to take the lead in a largely fictional and completely hagiographic biopic of (current) Egyptian president Al-Sisi.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Martin studied under and is basically a Temu Alan Grant, while the unctuous Friend oozes with corporate evil.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 June 2025
  • At times, the display of closeness felt a bit unctuous, as when Musk praised Trump for his gold-heavy interior design makeover of the Oval Office.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.
    David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
  • At any moment, the noodles might dissolve, the cheese topping burn, the dish collapse into a soggy, oleaginous mess.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
Adjective
  • And there's a lot of demonstrative evidence in this case, is my understanding.
    Tracy Wright , Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2025
  • Alexander Zverev Loses at Wimbledon and Might Need Therapy Alexander Zverev isn’t the most demonstrative of players at the best of times, but the German is going through the worst of times.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • Haley rounded out her presidential resume with a foreign-policy position in Trump’s first administration, seemed to leave her job on good terms with the president, and delivered a fulsome speech to the 2020 Republican National Convention comparing Trump at length to Reagan.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 2 July 2025
  • These true wireless earbuds deliver truly satisfying audio with a superb sense of rhythm and a fulsome bass thanks to the use of magnetic fluid driver technology.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Gushy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gushy. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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