Associations to the word «Schmaltz»

Wiktionary

SCHMALTZ, noun. (uncountable) Liquid chickenfat.
SCHMALTZ, noun. (uncountable) Excessively sentimental art or music.

Dictionary definition

SCHMALTZ, noun. (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music.

Wise words

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus