schmaltzy
adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
"a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin,
mawkish, mushy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "schmaltzy":
bathetic, beery, cloying, gooey, gushing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy,
namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental,
oversentimentalized, romantic, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized,
sloppy, soft, sticky, tear-jerking, teary
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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