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Slushy

adjective

Being or resembling melting snow. "Deep slushy mud"

Effusively or insincerely emotional. Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy. "Maudlin expressions of sympathy" , "Mushy effusiveness" , "A schmaltzy song" , "Sentimental soap operas" , "Slushy poetry"

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"Slushy" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the air just outside our glass. It was running—it was boiling—like snow into which a white-hot rod is thrust. What had been solid air had suddenly at the touch of the sun become a paste, a mud, a slushy liquefaction, that ...

— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells

... snow, but at midday he begged some bread at a cottage door and crept into a lonely barn to eat it. It was warm in there, and after his meal he fell asleep among the hay. It was dark when he woke, and started trudging once more through the slushy roads. ...

— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton

... on the floor, which is dirty with the nice clean dirt that is more than half chopped hay, and those there was room for hung their legs down out of the top door, and we looked down at the farmyard, which is very slushy when you get down ...

— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit

... now passing Euston. It was a muggy, slushy night, with a thin brown fog wreathing the houses and fading away above their tops into a dull, slate-blue sky. The wet street looked like a black canal; the blurred forms, less like vehicles than nondescript ...

— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey

... not hold much longer. It was patchy, netted with cracks, heaved up in ridges, mottled with slushy pools, corroded to the bottom. Decidedly it was rotten, rotten. Still it held stubbornly. The Klondike hammered it with mighty bergs, black and heavy as a house. Down the swift current they sped, crashing, grinding, roaring, to batter into the unbroken armour of the Yukon. And along its banks, ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

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