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schmaltzy definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see schmaltz

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe songs, films, or books as schmaltzy, you do not like them because they are too sentimental. = slushy ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

bathetic, beery, cloying, gooey, gushing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, romantic, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, soft, sticky, tear-jerking, teary