mod. overly sweet and sentimental. (See also schmaltz.) : This movie is too schmaltzy for me.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
But it's pleasantly done, often funny and never schmaltzy.
It was schmaltzy, but he meant it and it moves me to think back on that.
The director is famous for his schmaltzy endings, but in this case the sunny gloss seems nothing short of parody.
With plot holes the size of boulders, it's a thuddingly bad effort at wacky humor and schmaltzy redemption.
And, unlike a schmaltzy monologue or politically-fueled rant, it rang true to something that teenagers would actually do.
Lewis' annual telethon is as schmaltzy, funny, maddening.