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schmaltz noun [ ʃmɔːlts ]

• excessive sentimentality, especially in music or films.
• "at the end of the film the audience are drowned in a sea of schmaltz"
Origin: 1930s: from Yiddish shmaltz, from German Schmalz ‘dripping, lard’.

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