"schmaltzy" meaning in English

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          "text": "“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.”",
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          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "larmoyant"
        },
        {
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "tire-larmes"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "schmalzig"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "rührselig"
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          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "larmoyant"
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          "roman": "sachlós",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "σαχλός"
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          "roman": "sentimentálʹnyj",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "сентимента́льный"
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          "roman": "slezlívyj",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "слезли́вый"
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          "roman": "slaščávyj",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "слаща́вый"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
          "word": "tårdrypande"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
      "word": "larmoyant"
    },
    {
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      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
      "word": "tire-larmes"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
      "word": "schmalzig"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
      "word": "rührselig"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
      "word": "larmoyant"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sachlós",
      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
      "word": "σαχλός"
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      "roman": "sentimentálʹnyj",
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      "word": "сентимента́льный"
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      "roman": "slezlívyj",
      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
      "word": "слезли́вый"
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      "roman": "slaščávyj",
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      "word": "слаща́вый"
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      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
      "word": "tårdrypande"
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      "sense": "Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic",
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  "word": "schmaltzy"
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