Crossword clues for schmaltzy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1935, from schmaltz + -y (2). Related: Schmaltziness.
Wiktionary
a. Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
WordNet
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.