schmaltzy
Example Sentences
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Mixing American history with wild fabulation, and parental grief with Buddhist spirituality, the book’s weirdness and originality helped smuggle through its schmaltzy moralizing about selflessness and empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
“Harry must have longed for the schmaltzy embrace of Oprah!” was the front page of the Daily Mail, a reference to the couple’s 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
From Reuters • Jun. 7, 2023
The director, often simplified as a schmaltzy optimist, also has a dark side.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2023
“It has a sort of misty, nostalgic, schmaltzy appeal.”
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022
He hated schmaltzy stuff like that, hated omens.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
