sappy

Modifies a noun

• growth: High nitrogen results in sappy growth beloved of aphids.
• material: Tips Composting works best with a good mix of dry, tough materials with wet, sappy materials.
• song: On " Separate Lives, " they turned a sappy song into a showcase for their astonishing vocal prowess.
• stuff: There's been some really sappy, cliched stuff I've had to reject.
• tree: As if he were a sappy cedar tree, he was uprooted in the palace where he used to sleep ( ?
• sentimentality: While the film does keep adults and kids relatively entertained, it also drifts into both lame slapstick and sappy sentimentality.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Oh, and it's probably very sappy in places, too.
• so: Michael's family makes the Walton's seem dysfunctional, it is so sappy.
• awfully: Heaps of love, sweetheart, I feel awfully sappy to-day - it makes a big lump come in my throat.
• little: It's really a wonderful song, even if it is a little sappy.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: I suppose Flossie and Bill will have come back by now, feeling very sappy.