schmaltzy

adj

Etymology: From schmaltz + -y.

1. Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.

   “During a series of interviews, Franzen expressed ambivalence about Oprah’s endorsement—[…] that he had found a few of her choices in the past “schmaltzy” and “one-dimensional.””

   ““In France, it has the reputation of being a typically American mixture of clichés and of schmaltz,” he wrote in an email. “Clichés about us don’t interest us, and the French are not very schmaltzy.””