Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mushy \Mush"y\, a.
   Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and
   effusive; weakly sentimental.

         She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. --G. Eliot.

Source : WordNet®

mushy
     adj 1: having the consistency of mush
     2: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
        "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a
        schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
        poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin}, {mawkish},
         {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy}, {sentimental}, {slushy}]
     [also: {mushiest}, {mushier}]