schmalzy

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adjective

effusively or insincerely emotional
- a bathetic novel
- maudlin expressions of sympathy
- mushy effusiveness
- a schmaltzy song
- sentimental soap operas
- slushy poetry
• Syn:
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish,
mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, sentimental, soppy,
soupy, slushy
• Similar to:
emotional
• Derivationally related forms:
sentiment (for: sentimental), sentimentality (for: sentimental), mushiness (for: mushy), mawkishness (for: mawkish), drippiness (for: drippy)