schmaltzy
2
8.7
- adjective
- /ʃmɑltsɪ/
- Informal
:
sentimental
- The film was criticized for its schmaltzy portrayal of love, making many viewers roll their eyes.
- schmaltzy music
- a bit too schmaltzy
- a little bit schmaltzy
You know, what that is, is, I mean, not to be schmaltzy, but what he's doing is he's finding the truth.
- You know, what that is, is, I mean, not to be schmaltzy, but what he's doing is he's finding the truth.
Examples
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The schmaltzy lyrics keep scrolling by—white against black.
Fiction book (1998) -
Keeping the tone positive without being inauthentic or schmaltzy—you can tell he and the team are actually excited.
Blog text (21) -
What are the ones that are too schmaltzy and and we should avoid or not recommend?
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To be sure, the country has no monopoly on this sometimes moving, sometimes schmaltzy, sometimes crass genre.
Academic text (2004) -
I don't mean to get schmaltzy, but he's someone who really does seem that way.
Blog text (27) -
The problem with The Sessions is all the schmaltzy, feel-good dishonesty that composes its narrative and intellectual scope.
Blog text (19) -
Now I know that’s one that can polarize people—some finding a romance in a movie is precisely what they hate and regard as schmaltzy.
Blog text (27) -
A schmaltzy characterization, but only the inexperienced would deny the haunting link between truth and cliché.
Fiction book (1999) -
We don't expect Dunham's book to be a schmaltzy self-empowerment tale, but rather a straightforward if sardonic expansion of the world she's alluded to online.
Blog text (3) -
She wrote a schmaltzy poem about lost love that made everyone in the room feel a bit uncomfortable.
Synonyms
165
4.5
Having strong warm feelings about people or things from the past, often too emotional
81
5.8
Not original and trying to be touching but it feels silly
56
4.6
Feels too sentimental and silly, like a movie or card
32
5.6
Showing feelings in a way that is too strong
27
4.3
Showing too much emotion in a way that seems silly or fake
23
7.0
Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake
23
8.2
Showing fake feeling and too much emotion
22
3.7
Too emotional in a way that seems not sincere
16
7.2
To try to seem very sweet and childish in a fake way
8
8.2
Too sentimental or brightly decorated and not in good taste
8
8.0
Too emotional in a way that seems silly or not sincere
6
7.0
Showing too much emotion in a way that feels silly
5
7.9
Being too sweet or emotional in a way that seems false
3
8.2
Too sweet or emotional in a way that makes you feel sick
3
5.0
Showing too much feeling for the situation
2
9.4
Showing feelings that are not real and too sweet
1
7.9
Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake
1
5.8
Too emotional and sentimental in a way that seems silly
1
5.4
Overly sentimental and emotional in a way that seems false
1
9.9
Too sentimental in a way that feels fake or silly
1
9.9
Being too cute and childish in a sweet, exaggerated way
Being very emotional in a way that feels fake
Too sentimental and not sincere
Too sweet and emotional so it feels false
Too emotional and sweet in a way that feels fake
Too sweet and sentimental in tone or style
Showing strong, simple feelings in a way that seems fake
Being too emotional in a cheap, false way
A little silly and too sentimental, feeling fake
Showing too much love in a silly, naive way
Having too much sugar in taste or feeling too emotional
Antonyms
How Sentimental
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Schmaltzy comes from schmaltz, a Yiddish and German word for melted chicken fat, literally 'fat'. Think of something greasy or too sweet — when a film, song, or speech piles on fake feeling it feels sticky, so we call it schmaltzy, meaning overly sentimental or not sincere.