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- adverb In a
mushy manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Short Story Month: Addicted to Alice Munro 2010
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Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Short Story Month: Addicted to Alice Munro 2010
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People talk like this quite often, especially people the Americans would call "liberals"--that is, people who are mushily not comfortable with the hard right, but who don't want to really seriously think about why.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: February 2008 Archives 2008
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I don't know that I'd go that far, but "mushily sweet" is a damned fine achievement for a hundred and eighty seconds.
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So heartless and cold, these Republicans... who will, of course, take every opportunity to say that Democrats are so mushily sentimental they can't even think.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Even without an accent, he would have spoken more mushily than he liked; he was nearer sixty than fifty, and had only a few teeth left.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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And it's argued in its usual witty - albeit mushily circular - fashion.
STOPPARD ON FREE SPEECH TEV 2006
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And it's argued in its usual witty - albeit mushily circular - fashion.
The Elegant Variation: TEV 2006
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Again the ship moved mushily, until it was halfway through the swing.
Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994
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Again the ship moved mushily, until it was halfway through the swing.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969
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