mawkish

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

Synonyms

bathetic hokey kitschy maudlin schmaltzy schmalzy mushy sentimental slushy soppy soupy drippy

Words of close approximity

mawkishly mawkishness