as in sickening
overly or insincerely flattering
a gushy review of a novel by an author who just happened to be a friend of the critic
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Her breezy, gushy style could give the sadness of her lyrics a sneaky potency.
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Kennedy has been ballyhooed on Fox News with gushy interviews with Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
And last but not least, Chopra concluded her post with a gushy tribute to her 1-year-old daughter Malti.
—USA TODAY, 14 May 2023
Still, like Cabello’s gushy previous album Romance, Familia does hold a lot of clues about Cabello and Mendes’s relationship and its downfall.
—Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Kennedy has been ballyhooed on Fox News with gushy interviews with Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
And last but not least, Chopra concluded her post with a gushy tribute to her 1-year-old daughter Malti.
—USA TODAY, 14 May 2023
Still, like Cabello’s gushy previous album Romance, Familia does hold a lot of clues about Cabello and Mendes’s relationship and its downfall.
—Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
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“Gushy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gushy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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