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Adjectives
(s)
bathetic
,
drippy
,
hokey
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maudlin
,
mawkish
,
kitschy
,
mushy
,
schmaltzy
,
schmalzy
,
sentimental
,
sappy
,
soppy
,
soupy
,
slushy
effusively or insincerely emotional
“a bathetic novel”
,
“maudlin expressions of sympathy”
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“mushy effusiveness”
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“a schmaltzy song”
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“sentimental soap operas”
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“slushy poetry”
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(s)
artificial
,
contrived
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hokey
,
stilted
artificially formal
“that artificial humility that her husband hated”
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“contrived coyness”
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“a stilted letter of acknowledgment”
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“when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation”
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