goopy

comparative goopier · superlative goopiest

1. informalHaving the consistency of goop.

   The flask had something goopy in it.

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   A hard November wind is spattering goopy sleet against the broad windows all around the hall.

   1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 361

2. informalSaccharine; sentimental.

   “She’d had some goopy notion of self-sacrifice, or maybe it was self-punishment, of making amends.”

   2007 June 17, Jennifer Egan, “Woman Warriors”, in New York Times

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   […]and how they all seem like limp smug moronic self-satisfied shit-eating pricks with their lobotomized smiles and goopy sentiment and how he wishes them all violent technicolor harm in the worst way,[…]

   1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 353