SCHMALTZY

• (adj.) effusively or insincerely emotional

  "a bathetic novel", "maudlin expressions of sympathy", "mushy effusiveness", "a schmaltzy song", "sentimental soap operas", "slushy poetry"

  synonyms : bathetic , soppy , slushy , sentimental , schmalzy , mushy , mawkish , maudlin , kitschy , hokey , drippy , soupy

  The movie was a mawkish love story. -added by naila_inlas

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