KITSCHY

bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy

(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

kitschy (comparative kitschier, superlative kitschiest)

Having the nature of kitsch.

Synonyms

• corny

Anagrams

• shticky

Source: Wiktionary



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