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

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle