given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
effusively or insincerely emotional; a bathetic novel; maudlin expressions of sympathy; mushy effusiveness; a schmaltzy song; sentimental soap operas; slushy poetry
[ Syn: bathetic , drippy , hokey , maudlin , mawkish , kitschy , mushy , schmaltzy , schmalzy , soppy , soupy , slushy ]