Meanings (ES + gloss)
cursi
Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
He was a good deal of a character, and much better company than the sappy literature he was selling.
To himself, already beginning to resent the new employer as all that morning he had been resenting the old one, Dr. Planish groaned, “He’s getting saintly on me! A careerist in hol…