ADJECTIVE
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effusively or insincerely emotional
sentimental soap operas
slushy poetry
maudlin expressions of sympathy
a bathetic novel
mushy effusiveness
a schmaltzy song
How To Use schmalzy In A Sentence
- He waves me off as I start to help him downstage for his big finale—”Maketh Someone Happie”—a schmalzy tune, sure, but one that allows him to leave the stage without a dry eye or a full wallet in the house. At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
- Take one of my favourite films, It's a Wonderful Life - it is, without doubt, a great if schmalzy movie, but, to be brutally honest it's a bit slow in places. Archive 2009-03-01
- It was still quite schmalzy, but there was one passage which I thought was excellent. Archive 2004-09-01