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as in sentimentalism
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
couldn't stand all the mush in the movie's romantic scenes
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Recent Examples of mush
More: Feel the rush of the mush in frigid photos of Greenland dog sledding
A Secret Service agent helped stop a second assassination attempt by spotting a man with a rifle hiding in shrubbery near Trump's golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025
Dog lovers will learn how to mush and get some furry cuddles in, too.
—Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2025
Olive mush from peak season pressings is pressed again to create pomace oil.
—Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Feb. 2025
Fresh ingredients like salads, raw eggs, and uncooked vegetables often become mush when defrosted.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2024
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025
Dog lovers will learn how to mush and get some furry cuddles in, too.
—Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2025
Olive mush from peak season pressings is pressed again to create pomace oil.
—Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Feb. 2025
Fresh ingredients like salads, raw eggs, and uncooked vegetables often become mush when defrosted.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mush
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Cream Corn Shucking corn is one of the messiest kitchen tasks there is, nevertheless, Southerners persist, because cream corn is one of the most blissful summer dishes.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
31 May 2025
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Down three, the Yankees rallied with a pair of two-out two-run homers into the corn from Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
4 July 2024
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Reichardt’s previous films, such as her retro Westerns Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, have tended towards sludge and shadows, but her competition closer opens with the golden leaves of a New England fall, slightly faded to the paler golds of an Ektachrome postcard of the era.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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Add the bark powder, which turns into DMT-laden sludge.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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Imaginative touches like that go a long way toward ameliorating the film’s small but not ignorable flaws, such as its tendency toward sentimentality in the last stretch and the gaping spaces where more character-building needs to be to land the plane safely.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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Caught up in the sentimentality of his own fame, the Weeknd just can’t heed his own curtain call.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
16 May 2025
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“Mush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mush. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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