marshmallowier

Adjective

marshmallowy (comparative marshmallowier, superlative marshmallowiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.
   • An ice-cube crusher for $1, a cake slicer, something like a miniature rake, to cut smoothly through the marshmallowiest frosting without a leak, for $1, […] were just a few I put on my list.1933 April 23, Katharine Blank, “Busy Housewife Finds Gadgets Galore for Spring Bride’s Kitchen Shower […]”, in Brooklyn Times Union, Long Island edition, 86th year, Brooklyn, N.Y., →OCLC, page 10...
   1. Soft and fluffy.
2. Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating.
   • “It changed Gable from a heavy to a comedian in It Happened One Night. It changed Jean Arthur from a marshmallowy ingenue to a hard-boiled wise- cracker in The Whole Town's Talking.”2002, Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Cooper Square Press, →ISBN, page 187
3. Vacuous.
   • The spirit of Oprah is haunting yet another session of Sex Week. Once again, a basically tawdry event has come packaged in all kinds of marshmallowy language about self-understanding and self-acceptance.2012, Nathan Harden, Sex and God at Yale, →ISBN, page 177