schmaltzy
IPA: ʃmˈɑɫtsi
adjective
- Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
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Examples of "schmaltzy" in Sentences
- Hence the schmaltzy tone to much of it.
- Schmaltzy and silly I know, but I like it nonetheless.
- If there's anything I can't stand it's schmaltzy melodrama.
- And he could be as sentimental and schmaltzy as a Neil Simon play.
- Leonard Maltin felt it was a genuine if schmaltzy adaptation of the novel.
- Simon tries to write serious drama, but critics find him as schmaltzy as ever.
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