gluey
- s having the sticky properties of an adhesive
- What passed for honest emotion may now be disdained as gluey sentimentality.
- Italians, of course, will still be able to buy their favorite pastas, but their grocery shelves will also contain what the newspaper La Repubblica called "gluey and insipid pasta .
- Preprandial hors d'oeuvres"horrors d'oeuvres," as an English hostess once dubbed those limp, gluey concoctionshave yielded to crisp vegetable sprigs and slices.