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SCHMALTZY
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
schmaltzy (comparative schmaltzier, superlative schmaltziest)
Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
Source: Wiktionary
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