schmaltzy

• shmaltzy

schmaltz +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃmɒltsi/

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schmaltzy (comparative schmaltzier, superlative schmaltziest)

1. Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
   • 2018 June 26, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     During a series of interviews, Franzen expressed ambivalence about Oprah’s endorsement— […] that he had found a few of her choices in the past “schmaltzy” and “one-dimensional.”

   • 2023 January 20, Dan Bilefsky, quoting Gérard Araud, “American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     “In France, it has the reputation of being a typically American mixture of clichés and of schmaltz,” he wrote in an email. “Clichés about us don’t interest us, and the French are not very schmaltzy.”

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