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as in sentimentalism
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
couldn't stand all the mush in the movie's romantic scenes
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Recent Examples of mush
Our Editors Loved This May Lightweight Performance All that cushy midsole foam is extremely lightweight while both softening impact and providing responsiveness in every step—there’s no mush here.
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Outside Online, 15 July 2024
The fries are tough around the ends and mush in the middle.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
The fries were mush, sticks of salty mashed potato.
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—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
The franchise wasn’t quite successful at managing this balancing act, and the timeline quickly devolved into utter mush.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 July 2024
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Outside Online, 15 July 2024
The fries are tough around the ends and mush in the middle.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
The fries were mush, sticks of salty mashed potato.
4.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
The franchise wasn’t quite successful at managing this balancing act, and the timeline quickly devolved into utter mush.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mush
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Lewis Barbecue in downtown Charleston specializes in Texas-style barbecue and has fun options like green chile cheddar sausage, corn pudding, and nachos.Trudy Haywood Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2024
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The restaurant offers, as its name suggests, Sinaloa-style tamales (beef and vegetable filling), natural corn and corn with chile and cheese.Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.Katie Rife, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 4 July 2024
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Torrents of poisonous sludge pouring through collapsed tailings dams have contaminated waterways in Brazil, Canada, and elsewhere and killed hundreds of people—in addition to the hundreds, possibly thousands, of miners who die in workplace accidents each year.Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Even The Daily Mail picked it up—the surest sign that a story has become part of the Internet’s lowbrow sludge.Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024
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Schmaltz refers to excessive sentimentality or melodrama and is often used for art, movies, music or storytelling purposes.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2024
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By Barry Levitt October 14, 2024 10:31 PM EDT English Teacher, created by Brian Jordan Alvarez, is a show with no interest in sentimentality.Barry Levitt, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Mush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mush. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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