<adj.all> a bathetic novel maudlin expressions of sympathy mushy effusiveness a schmaltzy song sentimental soap operas slushy poetry
Slushy \Slush"y\ (sl[u^]sh"[y^]), a. Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. ``A dark, drizzling, slushy day.'' --Blackw. Mag.
Also, out there in the slushy park in Art Square, is a symbol of Leningrad's soul that buoys my spirit: a statue of the man Russians admire more than Lenin, the poet Alexander Pushkin, caught in midsaunter in the town he loved and made the world's.
A $600,000 device known as an Archimedes screw tractor, mounted on auger-driven pontoons, was loaned by the oil industry, but a test run showed the slushy trail it left made it unsuitable.