soupy

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Culture is soupy, and the delicious bits of fantasy floating around in it soak up the political broth just like everything else.

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  1. adjective Having the appearance or consistency of soup.
  2. adjective Informal Foggy: soupy weather.
  3. adjective Informal Sentimental.

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  • The digestive juices were black and soupy, so she used a strainer to scoop out the contents. —  Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted
  • The air was soupy, and the concrete was hard and gritty under her rump. —  Lunatics
  • An instant later Sanchez slipped off the rotting log along which he had been tiptoeing and plunged waist deep into thick, soupy, organic muck. —  FSF,December2005
  • AP Editors wrote: We made the recipe with 3 cans of soup, but if it's turning out too "soupy" for you, I'm sure it would be OK to use only 2 cans. —  American Profile
  • Culture is soupy, and the delicious bits of fantasy floating around in it soak up the political broth just like everything else. —  Ecstatic Days
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