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" ;

2. (

• artificial ,
• contrived ,
• hokey ,
• stilted

) 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" ;