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Definition of Soppiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soppiness
Literary usage of Soppiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
"... conversations she had taken a decided penchant—they had discussed the matter
pro and con with an intellectual romancing quite devoid of soppiness. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... or Posh [posh'], a state of soppiness, as a grass field after continuous rain ;
gen- ' All o' a posh ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1918)
"Here they are ,'eri the chance of recovering strength, courage, and soppiness.
In fine weather they learn gardening and ..."
4. Introduction to the English Reader, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and by Lindley Murray (1814)
"soppiness Domestic. For genuine happiness we nced not roam ; 'Tis doubtless found
with little, and at home. Virtue and Vice Progressive. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1861)
"... who, from sheer disgust with the milk-soppiness of the models set before them,
have taken the other track, and gone to the devil in double-quick time. ..."
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