The word "soppy" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone or something that is overly sentimental, romantic, and mawkish. For example, "Marcus's sappy love poem was so soppy that it made me cringe."
And let's face it, you'll still have friends, right? 3. "But it's just a load of soppy romance!" Have you heard of Louise Rennison anybody?
Harden your hearts, soppy socialists everywhere.
Might his fertile mind and Notre Europe, his post-commission think-tank, find a course for the future that all can follow?For all his idealism witness his deeply felt socialist and Christian principles Mr Delors is no soppy romantic.
Even if Americans have become a little more liberal on issues such as the death penalty, they are still well to the right of those soppy Europeans.The full results of The Economist/YouGov poll are here.
The dog turns out to be a soppy spaniel that he bought for his children.
They may think they are—or rather may enjoy reading soppy leaders in the Times telling them that theirs is an ancient nation in touch with its woodland past.
Indeed, Mr Cameron has ruefully acknowledged that a Tory government might be obliged to raise them, as Margaret Thatcher famously did in 1981.The second reason is that, while some top Tories complain that Britons are at bottom soppy socialists, Mr Brown has always been constrained by an opposite hunch about the British electorate: that it is essentially tight-fisted.
But I'm so ashamed that we've had this out-of-control [immigration] system…'" As the party leaders swapped soppy anecdotes during their first televised debate, David Cameron revealed to a waiting world that he had recently met a man who had apparently joined the navy at the age of ten.
For their part, the Tories portray Labour opposition to culling as base pandering to soppy townies who are sentimental about fluffy animals and don't know the first thing about the harsh realities of life on the land.
Mr Cameron may sound and look a bit soppy, but voters will probably give his party the benefit of the doubt.Another problem is that by drawing attention to the failings of the criminal-justice system, the government also underlines its own failure to sort it out over the past ten years.
In his rare moments of relaxation he would watch soppy films.
