"maudlin" in the adjective sense
1. bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
effusively or insincerely emotional
"a bathetic novel"
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"
"mushy effusiveness"
"a schmaltzy song"
"sentimental soap operas"
"slushy poetry"
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