Usually means: Excessively sentimental or emotional expression.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word schmaltzy:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. schmaltzy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. schmaltzy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. schmaltzy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. schmaltzy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. schmaltzy: Vocabulary.com
  6. schmaltzy: Wordnik
  7. schmaltzy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. schmaltzy: Wiktionary
  9. schmaltzy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. schmaltzy: Dictionary.com
  11. schmaltzy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. schmaltzy: Rhymezone
  13. schmaltzy: Free Dictionary
  14. schmaltzy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. schmaltzy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schmaltzy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See schmaltz as well.)

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adjective:  Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.

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