To be unduly sentimental and “gushing.”
1910. If any new meaning is to be read by the affair into the worn phrase, “the ingratitude of republics,” we think it is that they are not so much ungrateful as awkward. Even when they want to do fine things, they do not always know how to go about it. In the present instance, it may be that a republic which unguardedly slopped over in connection with the wrong man feels particularly tongue-tied when it comes to expressing thanks to the right man.—N.Y. Evening Post, March 10.
