hearts-and-flowers



bathos, bleeding heart, goo, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, nostalgia, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush,









   private investigator - FBI, Federal, Sherlock Holmes, detective, fed, investigator, operative, plain clothed policeman, sleuth, snoop ,

   condign - according to Hoyle, appropriate, atrocious, awful, becoming, correct, decent, decorous, deserved, dreadful, due, fair, fit, fitting, good,

   life raft - Mae West, bob, boom, buoy, cork, ejection seat, escape hatch, fire escape, float, life jacket, life preserver, lifeboat, lifeline, parachute, raft,

   mostly - a fortiori, above all, all in all, all the more, all things considered, almost entirely, altogether, approximately, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as per usual, as things go, as usual, at large,

   shift off - adjourn, beg the question, continue, defer, delay, dodge, drag out, duck, equivocate, extend, fence, hang fire, hang up, hedge, hem and haw,

   affection - Eros, Platonic love, abnormality, access, acute disease, admiration, adoration, adore, affect, affliction, agape, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, amorousness,

   brooder - barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, birthplace, breeding place, broiler, broody hen, capon, chanticleer, chick, chicken, cock, cockerel, coop, cradle,

   streaming - affluent, aglow, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, bagging, baggy, beaming, blinding, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, confluent,

   cloud drift - cirrus, cocktail, cumulus, mushroom cloud, nimbus, scud, storm clouds, stratus, thundercloud, water carrier ,

   candy cane - chameleon, confetti, harlequin, iris, jaguar, leopard, marble, moire, nacre, ocelot, peacock, rainbow, spectrum, tortoise shell, variegation ,