Meaning & use
Soupy
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Resembling soup in consistency, especially thick, watery, or muddy; also used to describe excessive, cloying sentimentality.
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The rice had absorbed too much water and turned soupy.
Critics dismissed the film's ending as soupy and overly sentimental.
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The figurative sense—describing something as overly emotional or sappy—likely arose by association with thick, cloying soup rather than any culinary quality.
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