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sobby

adjective

Affectedly or extravagantly emotional:

bathetic, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, romantic, sentimental, slushy, soft, soppy.

Informal: gooey, mushy, schmaltzy, sloppy, soupy.

Slang: drippy, sappy, tear-jerking.

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The three, Ahmed Lotti, Mohamed Sobby and Ibrahim Rady were apprehended in a house at Makongeni Estate on Sunday.

Three Egyptians seized for being in Homa Bay illegally

"I don't like the notion of reading all these sobby stories, that this team isn't doing good because such-and-such a star is injured."

Conference mulls injury reporting

3) the use of expression or affect to instinctively raise pitch without increasing volume, pressure or constriction (for example: sobby, pathetic, pleasant, surprise, good idea/epiphany, joy);

The role of the first formant in training the male singing voice

The minor characters are equally strong--from her sobby friend Suzy to Big Tex, Julia's amour, who reminds her of a rodeo clown, to a coke-snorting, wisecracking real estate agent.

Room

We kind of get sobby about it, because we both wish it would stop, but it's not really that big of a deal.

Bryan Herman. (From the Desert)

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