Definitions

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  • adjective Not sappy; without excessive, cloying sentimentality.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sappy

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Examples

  • Barack Obama may be dismissed by cynics as some sort of religious cult figure, but the unsappy truth is that Obama appealed to the good in all of us.

    Vicky Ward: Art, Politics and Soul in New York 2008

  • Or perhaps maybe an unsappy blend of the two, like About Schmidt.

    Row Three » De Niro, Rockwell, Beckinsale & Barrymore are Fine - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

  • Friday-blue (alices brother, theyre mum is clearly very strange) to add stupid to stupidity, we are all very unsappy sacrastic people, apart from kennilee. this names will get us no where in life O. o but which is the least horrible people? vote pleasse!! put them in order, nicest first okay.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • One Craigslist letterpress purchase and a successful stationary show later, their "unsappy, uncrappy letterpress greetings" are earning a following on both coasts.

    JoshSpear.com 2008

  • One Craigslist letterpress purchase and a successful stationary show later, their "unsappy, uncrappy letterpress greetings" are earning a following on both coasts.

    JoshSpear.com 2008

  • One Craigslist letterpress purchase and a successful stationary show later, their "unsappy, uncrappy letterpress greetings" are earning a following on both coasts.

    JoshSpear.com 2008

  • One Craigslist letterpress purchase and a successful stationary show later, their "unsappy, uncrappy letterpress greetings" are earning a following on both coasts.

    JoshSpear.com 2008

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