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".

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