schmaltzy

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Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic
{s} overly emotional, excessively sentimental
disapproval If you describe songs, films, or books as schmaltzy, you do not like them because they are too sentimental. = slushy. a schmaltzy piece of music, book etc deals with emotions such as love and sadness in a way that seems silly and not serious enough (schmaltz (20-21 centuries), from shmalts , from smalz)
(adj ) Sentimental; corny: The schmaltzy soap opera needs an original story line
effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
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Liquid chickenfat
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(shmaltz Yiddish for melted or rendered chicken fat, schmaltz is used in English for "corn" as in excessive sentimentality; also as an adjec-tive, schmaltzy (corny)
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Excessively sentimental art or music
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disapproval If you describe a play, film, or book as schmaltz, you do not like it because it is too sentimental. = slush
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{i} grease, melted chicken fat used in cooking; exaggerated sentimentality, overemotionality (Yiddish)
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(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
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Chicken fat/sentimentality
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(n ) Chicken fat: I cook meat with schmaltz instead of butter to keep a kosher kitchen
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{s} schmaltzy, overly emotional, excessively sentimental
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bathetic: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
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    (noun.) 1935. from Yiddish Sol Steinmetz, in "Yiddish and English: The Story of Yiddish in America", suggests that this figurative derivation of "schmaltz" does not exist in Yiddish.