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• shmaltzy

From schmaltz +‎ -y.

• IPA(key): /ˈʃmɒltsi/

schmaltzy (comparative schmaltzier, superlative schmaltziest)

1. Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
   • 2018 June 26, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
     During a series of interviews, Franzen expressed ambivalence about Oprah’s endorsement— […] that he had found a few of her choices in the past “schmaltzy” and “one-dimensional.”
   • 2023 January 20, Dan Bilefsky, quoting Gérard Araud, “American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
     “In France, it has the reputation of being a typically American mixture of clichés and of schmaltz,” he wrote in an email. “Clichés about us don’t interest us, and the French are not very schmaltzy.”

• schmaltz

Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic

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