happy-clappy
adj.— «You don’t have to be a happy-clappy Silicon Valley hippie to see that computer-driven virtual reality is set to upstage Euro Disney before the millennium. » —“In This Sterile Diorama, Life Is but a Theme” by Stephen Bayley International Herald Tribune Apr. 9, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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