hokey
adjectives
effusively or insincerely emotional
"a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
bathetic,
drippy,
hokey,
kitschy,
maudlin,
mawkish,
mushy,
schmaltzy,
schmalzy,
sentimental,
slushy,
soppy,
soupy
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"
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