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Overdone sentimentality
Answer for the clue "Overdone sentimentality ", 8 letters:
schmaltz
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) Liquid chickenfat. 2 (context uncountable English) excessively sentimental art or music.
Usage examples of schmaltz.
Weinberger wished that for just one moment he could muster some of the schmaltz of show business.
Scott Fitzgerald to Joe Kennedy, such Irishmen had brought blarney and enchantment to stir into the schmaltz and the chutzpa that Hollywood already had in abundance.
The steel door closes behind him and he hears the piano become a pie-anny as schmaltz transmogrifies to boogie.
You can't cut the audience out of its essential enjoyment--you have to give them some schmaltz to hold on to.