Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic,
drippy,
hokey,
maudlin,
mawkish,
kitschy,
mushy,
schmaltzy,
schmalzy,
sentimental,
soppy,
soupy,
slushy]
