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Schmaltzy
Schmaltzy meaning
Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
Example sentences (6)
I Feel Like a Woman! and schmaltzy ballad Still the One.
There’ll be tears, schmaltzy speeches, a spectacular explosion and some bizarre out-of-body experiences for one special agent whose life hangs in the balance.
The sentimental tone is very schmaltzy, but Carrey’s performance contains some of the best physical comedy of his career and the message that lying is wrong and honesty is the best policy is an important one.
It’s a feel-good sports movie at its most American – schmaltzy, predictable, and sentimental.
The movie’s first teaser trailer is here and it’s schmaltzy, to say the least.
Carey's musical transition and use of more revealing clothing during the late 1990s were, in part, initiated to distance herself from this image, and she subsequently said that most of her early work was "schmaltzy MOR".