Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or property of being sappy, or full of sap; succulence; juiciness.
- n. The state of being sappy or foolish; the character of a saphead; foolishness.
Wiktionary
- n. The property of being sappy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being sappy; juiciness.
Examples
“… Slate. com's Sap-O-Meter offers handy updated bar charts to gauge the broad trends in sappiness — as the website defines it — in NBC's Olympic primetime.”
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“Songs like She Believes in Me (Kenny Rogers), Annie's Song (John Denver) they just rock the house with Spike singing because you can pretend to be all punk rock but at the same time their sappiness is just so strong it almost overpowers -- almost, but they throw in enough yeahs and fucks to temper it.”
“As we’ve come to expect, the teenage sappiness is occasionally cut with rather more adult self-pitying wallow.”
Keith Urban – Defying Gravity « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
“I am blessed with the same rich love, and totally understand your "sappiness".”
“Hearing conversations afterward, the "sappiness" to the movie was not a plus.”
“Really, he concludes, these stories get written because of lazy readers and writers, “Rarity stories are easy to write, and their sappiness makes them even easier to read.””
Beyond Jewspotting or Why We Care About Jews in Unlikely Places « The Blog at 16th and Q
“According to TV Tropes, “a Narm is a moment that is supposed to be serious, but loses the drama because of some combination of over-sappiness, poor execution, excessive melodrama, or the sheer absurdity of the situation.””
“Warning: Some sappiness and underlying Meaning of Life themes may appear in this post.”
“For the first hundred pages I was truly engaged, but after that I felt like I was o. d.ing on the sappiness of it all.”
“Maybe it's Thanksgiving week sappiness getting to us, but we're totally grateful for ABC's You Deserve It.”
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