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- noun The property of being
gushy .
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Examples
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In my Newsweek review, I called it the most beautiful film ever made, then spent decades regretting my gushiness.
'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget Joe Morgenstern 2011
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It's just that the gushiness, the adulation reserved for such iconic products is more than practically anything warrants.
7 Overrated Things That Are Actually Pretty Good (But Still Overrated) (PHOTOS) 2011
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The relatively minor faults of "Rebels" have to do with a tinge of gushiness—which is understandable when, bottom line, you're trying to make a case for L.A.'s scene in the 1960s being in the same ballpark as New York's in the 1940s, when Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning had long since emigrated to the city and Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline were relatively young Turks.
When the West Coast Went Pop Peter Plagens 2011
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The big danger in this style is a pictorial gushiness that can deprive it of what it needs most and what Ms. Jones's self-portraits have in plenty: some self-effacement.
The Good, the Bad and the Inspiring Peter Plagens 2012
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If you'll forgive the gushiness for a moment - I promise we'll get back to poo jokes soon - please know that John and I will always be indebted to you for your kindness these past few days.
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You say yr Hans are full 0 gushiness adn u neads da halp?
TONIGHT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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The OTHER side of me (I could really go on all mushy like but I'm on a timeline and I sense you may not really want to read all my gushiness; p)
stem-d Diary Entry stem-d 2009
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In this gushiness we ended up giving away many of our multiple campaign buttons.
Ellen Leary: Campaign Journal: Canvassing in Virginia -- Spiderwebs and Scarecrows 2008
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WARNING: blood and gushiness from a chicken that had flavr
catfish - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Water boils at a lower temperature here, which meant about 1/2 cup more milk and over an hour for the rice to reach the optimal creamy gushiness.
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