schmaltzy
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schmaltzy (comparative schmaltzier, superlative schmaltziest)
- Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
- 2023 January 20, Dan Bilefsky, quoting Gérard Araud, “American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- “In France, it has the reputation of being a typically American mixture of clichés and of schmaltz,” he wrote in an email. “Clichés about us don’t interest us, and the French are not very schmaltzy.”
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Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic