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(adj) bathetic, hokey, mushy, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, soppy, slushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, drippy
effusively or insincerely emotional
a bathetic novel; maudlin expressions of sympathy; mushy effusiveness; a schmaltzy song; sentimental soap operas; slushy poetry