adjective
1. having the consistency of mush
• Similar to: ↑soft
2. effusively or insincerely emotional
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a bathetic novel
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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
• Syn:
↑bathetic, ↑drippy, ↑hokey, ↑maudlin, ↑mawkish, ↑kitschy, ↑schmaltzy, ↑schmalzy, ↑sentimental, ↑soppy, ↑soupy, ↑slushy
• Similar to: ↑emotional
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sentiment (for: ↑sentimental), ↑sentimentality (for: ↑sentimental), ↑mushiness, ↑mawkishness (for: ↑mawkish), ↑drippiness (for: ↑drippy)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.