schmalzy adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin}, {mawkish}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {sentimental}, {slushy}]