kitschy

kitsch

K0080300 (kĭch)n. Pieces of art or other objects that appeal to popular or uncultivated taste, as in being garish or overly sentimental.

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[German Kitsch (originally used of kitschy painting ), perhaps from kitschen, to sweep or rake up street mud, or from German dialectal kitschen, to sell off cheaply.]

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kitsch′i·fy′ v.kitsch′y adj.

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Adj.

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kitschy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"hokey, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, schmalzy, bathetic, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy, mushy, drippyemotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"

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