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hokey

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

Synonyms

bathetic kitschy maudlin mawkish schmaltzy schmalzy mushy sentimental slushy soppy soupy drippy stilted artificial contrived

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