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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. effusively or insincerely emotional;
- Example: "a bathetic novel"
- Example: "maudlin expressions of sympathy"
- Example: "mushy effusiveness"
- Example: "a schmaltzy song"
- Example: "sentimental soap operas"
- Example: "slushy poetry"
[syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

schmaltzy
    adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
           "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
           "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
           poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin,
           mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy,
           sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "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