adjective
- Wet with light rain.
- usage: "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day"
- synonyms: drizzly
- Leaking in drops.
- usage: "a drippy faucet"
- Effusively or insincerely emotional.
- usage: "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
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