Associations to the word «Schmaltzy»

Wiktionary

SCHMALTZY, adjective. Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.

Dictionary definition

SCHMALTZY, adjective. Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope