Usually means: Excessively sentimental, overly emotional style.
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  1. schmalzy: Collins English Dictionary
  2. schmalzy: Vocabulary.com
  3. schmalzy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. schmalzy: Wiktionary
  5. schmalzy: Dictionary.com
  6. schmalzy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. schmalzy: Rhymezone
  8. schmalzy: Free Dictionary
  9. schmalzy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. schmalzy: Dictionary/thesaurus

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adjective:  Alternative spelling of schmaltzy [Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.]

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