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I deal much with people who write in English, but whose first language is not English, so perhaps I learnt it from a wrong interpretation of the word and inherited the vice without checking first. Now I know better.
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Hello
Almíbar ( for those who don't know ) is a saturated dissolution of water and sugar , use as a preservative for some canned fruits and stuff. So , " Almibarado " is something that has been covered by or inmersed in "almíbar" For example , "Melocotón en almíbar ligero" Now , keep in mind that those movie critics may contain words that : 1) ..are invented by the author 2) ...son pedantes 3) are used in an abstract way. May happen the same to some song's lyrics , where words doesn't always make sense. If I'd read that sentence or heard "almibarado" on such speech , there would be one hundred possible meanings , but always think of "deliverately sweetened" Hope this helps |
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I think JPablo's suggestion of corny is the best one so far.
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In English the result of dissolving a solute in a solvent is a solution. The words "dissolute" and "dissolution" have different meanings.
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Oye English speakers, doesn't the word corny impy hickish to you? Don Ameche doesn't seem paleto to me at all. De hecho su imagen es mondano. En la película, habla por lo meno dos idiomas sin accento ridículo, se viste bien, canta casi opera ...y en su pelo brillante quizás se se puede usarlo como un espejo.
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2. Informal
a. old-fashioned, trite, or lacking in subtlety: corny jokes. b. mawkishly sentimental: a corny soap opera. stale, banal, ordinary, overused, overdone, hackneyed |
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Vapid is not a particularly rare word, in my opinion. Treacle, on the other hand, wow, I would have wagered $100 it wasn't even a word. Never once heard it, I'd be surprised if even 1 in 10,000 native English speakers had ever encountered it.
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That is a really odd statement. I'm English, and I bet that every single English person I have met knows the words treacle and treacly. Both the COCA and BNC have plenty of examples, though treacly is not so common.
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If you don't mind, poli
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To me it may mean, depending on context:
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