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Soupy   /sˈupi/   Listen
Soupy

adjective
1.
Having the consistency and appearance of soup.
2.
Effusively or insincerely emotional.  Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy.  "Maudlin expressions of sympathy" , "Mushy effusiveness" , "A schmaltzy song" , "Sentimental soap operas" , "Slushy poetry"





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"Soupy" Quotes from Famous Books



... and giassas for Wad Habeshi. The distance was about 140 miles by water from Dakhala, but it took the gunboats and their tows over three days to get there, for the craft were deeply ladened with men and stores. The soupy whirling Nile flood washed the decks of the steamers almost from stem to stern. It was little short of the rarest good fortune there was no accident by the way. Everybody turned out to see the brigades off. Merrily stepped ...
— Khartoum Campaign, 1898 - or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan • Bennet Burleigh
... room to retrieve the final error. There was only a mile left to fall. The Pilot remained at his post to the actual landing, his only thought that of breaking the force of the crash, of maintaining the spaceworthiness of the vessel. He did not survive. With the ship bucking madly in a soupy atmosphere, few Ejectors could be mobilized and only one of them ...
— Youth • Isaac Asimov


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