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  • adjective comparative form of sappy: more sappy

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Examples

  • The truth is, even back when I was writing posts with titles such as "Stamp Out Santa," it was clear that on some levels I've always been a sucker for the holiday--at least in terms of pop culture, and the sappier the better.

    Danny Miller: Lola Heatherton's Love Spirit Christmas Danny Miller 2010

  • The truth is, even back when I was writing posts with titles such as "Stamp Out Santa," it was clear that on some levels I've always been a sucker for the holiday--at least in terms of pop culture, and the sappier the better.

    Danny Miller: Lola Heatherton's Love Spirit Christmas Danny Miller 2010

  • The truth is, even back when I was writing posts with titles such as "Stamp Out Santa," it was clear that on some levels I've always been a sucker for the holiday--at least in terms of pop culture, and the sappier the better.

    Danny Miller: Lola Heatherton's Love Spirit Christmas Danny Miller 2010

  • And if you're older than 16, the Eclipse soundtrack achieves the impossible: it's sappier than the dialogue.

    Ben Mankiewicz: Why the World Cup Is Better Than Twilight 2010

  • But there's something crude and debasing about deploying fiscal incentives to force something which should largely be a private decision, based on sappier motives such as love, between two people.

    Love and marriage? 2009

  • Sappiest Nominee: John Mayer's 2004 hit "Daughters," which won the award, is sappier than a Vermont maple, but that's mostly because of the oh-so-breathy vocals.

    Mark Blankenship: Ghost of Grammys Past, Part Two: Song of the Year and Best New Artist 2009

  • But there's something crude and debasing about deploying fiscal incentives to force something which should largely be a private decision, based on sappier motives such as love, between two people.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Now, it's just like it is NBC North with all this constant focus on the hometown kids crap that is used to front the even sappier hometown heroes corporate advertising super-crap.

    dumb 2006

  • The man is twenty but he is making wedding arrangements- if this gets any sappier Julia Roberts will be involved!

    Long distance relationships Minzo 2004

  • The man is twenty but he is making wedding arrangements- if this gets any sappier Julia Roberts will be involved!

    Archive 2004-11-01 Minzo 2004

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