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Corny quality
Answer for the clue "Corny quality ", 8 letters:
schmaltz
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Word definitions for schmaltz in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"banal or excessive sentimentalism," 1935, from Yiddish shmalts , literally "melted fat," from Middle High German smalz , from Old High German smalz "animal fat," related to smelzan "to melt" (see smelt (v.)). Modern German Schmalz "fat, grease" has the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music [syn: shmaltz , schmalz , mushiness ]
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.