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Adjective: drippy (drippier,drippiest)  dri-pee
  1. Wet with light rain
    "a wet drippy day"
    - drizzly, mizzly
     
  2. Leaking in drops
    "a drippy faucet"
     
  3. Effusively or insincerely emotional
    "a drippy novel"
    - bathetic, hokey [N. Amer], maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy, gooey, cutesy, sappy [N. Amer]

Derived forms: drippier, drippiest

See also: drip, drippily, drippiness, emotional, leaky, wet