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Sentimental master taking wife's place in dance held in school yard
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schmaltzy
Word definitions for schmaltzy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However, the schmaltzy parts, near the end, work like a charm. ▪ In the background schmaltzy music played softly.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic , drippy , hokey , maudlin , mawkish , mushy , schmalzy , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1935, from schmaltz + -y (2). Related: Schmaltziness .
Usage examples of schmaltzy.
Marcia, being presumptuous and almighty ridiculous about it in her eyes, and showing to her a real crappiness of mind when my own emotions had pitched me up into a schmaltzy Walt Disney-type mood for a great and useless gesture, only to find myself flat on my ass.
Cornyness goes down particularly well, cutesy talk and schmaltzy sentimentality rate highly too.
It was painted gaudily in fine colored stripes and the outside speakers were playing a schmaltzy farewell-until-we-meet-again tune.
The band arrived, and began playinga bizarre mixture of American soft rock and schmaltzy Bavarian waltzes.
He figured any kid with half a brain could see through that kind of schmaltzy stuff as well.
She cried at movies, while reading schmaltzy books, and whenever Maxi made a goal during his soccer games-even if not very often.
It’s always struck him how the toughest and most bitchy girls had the schmaltziest, squishiest doodads in their bedrooms.