schmaltzy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

schmaltzy
    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}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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