schmaltzy

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

schmaltz=y

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective schmaltzy has 1 sense

schmaltzy(s = adj.all) bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy - 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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THESAURUS

schmaltzy

bathetic, beery, cloying, gooey, gushing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, romantic, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, soft, sticky, tear-jerking, teary