(s)bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushyeffusively or insincerely emotional“a bathetic novel”, “maudlin expressions of sympathy”, “mushy effusiveness”, “a schmaltzy song”, “sentimental soap operas”, “slushy poetry”