schmalzy
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Adj. | 1. | schmalzy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, bathetic, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy, mushy, drippy emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional" |
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schmaltzy
also schmalzyadjective
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schmal(t)zy
adj (inf: = slushy) → schmalzig (inf)
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