Stumped.

That's right, baffled. By a word. In People magazine. Follow me closely here. Today I was reading People, and one of their writers used a word that I didn;t know. IF you can believe such a thing.

Well, believe it or leave it ducks, because that just happened.

It was in the book review section. Obviously they aren't so much reviews as little mini-opinionated-synopses, but it's People, you're sitting in a waiting room, you take what you can get. The word was treacly. The phrase was something like "it was a moving, if sometimes treacly, freshman effort." Huh. Someone thinks that they're too good for their job writing for People, and they want you to know about it. I had to look that shit up on my phone! Now, maybe you are much smarter than me, but if not, here's the definition: contrived or unrestrained sentimentality.