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schmaltz
noun
()
(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
Synonyms:
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Words Related to
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mushiness
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schmalz
,
corn
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rafinesque
,
sentimentality
,
cheesiness
,
melodrama
,
sentimentalism
,
mawkishness
,
triteness
,
pathos
,
kitsch
,
cornball
,
bombast
,
treacle
,
bathos
,
hokey
,
melodramatics
,
hokum
,
cloy
,
blandness
,
pretentiousness
,
silliness
,
shtick
,
campy
,
sweetness
,
tastelessness
,
pomposity
,
sappiness
,
schlock
,
corniness
,
shmaltz
,
didacticism
,
moroseness
,
raunch
,
cliches
,
pablum
,
smarm
,
pastiche
,
insipidity
,
dreck
,
tunefulness
,
pretension
,
moralizing
,
sanctimony
,
grandiloquence
,
ickiness
,
whimsy
,
staginess
,
smarminess
,
ponderousness
,
chirpiness
,
piffle
,
banality
,
wryness
,
pabulum
,
corn pone
,
nuttiness
,
slapstick
,
winsomeness
,
hackwork
,
weepie
,
jingoism
,
cornpone
,
groaner
,
archness
,
nasality
,
hagiography
,
looniness
,
fluffiness
,
trashiness
,
romanticism
,
zaniness
,
adorability
,
snark
,
inanity
,
nabokovian
,
knowingness
,
salaciousness
,
melancholy
,
emotionalism
,
misanthropy
,
affectations
,
wistfulness
,
facetiousness
,
subtlety
,
unoriginality
,
tearjerking
,
absurdism
,
earnestness
,
lunkheaded
,
starchy
,
hilarity
,
conventionality
,
cuteness
,
muzak
,
dreaminess
,
puerility
,
drivel
,
brassiness
,
schmaltz
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