Difference between Schmaltzy and Sentimental

SCHMALTZY vs SENTIMENTAL: ADJECTIVE

Romantic
Derived from emotion rather than reason
Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
Having, showing, or caused by strong or extravagant tenderness or sadness, often in an idealized way.
Having, showing, or caused by emotion, especially tender or affectionate feeling.
Effusively or insincerely emotional
Given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality

Synonyms Romantic, Sentimental (see romantic), hysterical, gushing, etc. (in style).
Containing or characterized by sentiment; appealing to the feelings rather than to reason: as, a sentimental song; sentimental works.
Swayed, or apt to be swayed, by sentiment; of a tender and susceptible heart; mawkishly tender or susceptible: as, a sentimental person.
Of or pertaining to sentimentalism.

Hokey, Saccharine, Cheesy, Corny, Melodramatic, Treacly, Sappy, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Mawkish, Maudlin

Passionate, Sweet, Emotive, Romantic, Corny, Poignant, Schmalzy, Slushy, Tender, Mushy, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Emotional, Mawkish, Maudlin

Hokey, Saccharine, Cheesy, Corny, Melodramatic, Treacly, Sappy, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Mawkish, Maudlin

Passionate, Sweet, Emotive, Romantic, Corny, Poignant, Schmalzy, Slushy, Tender, Mushy, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Emotional, Mawkish, Maudlin

Uptown supper clubs, singing schmaltzy songs to the drunks, fighting to get to the top of the ladder.
Every night the little trio stayed up late, boozing, having schmaltzy confessions, and engaging in long, earnest sophomore discussions about the meaning of life.
And parents will appreciate the gentle message about overindulgence and the value of integrity, which avoids straying into schmaltzy turf.
There'll be tears, schmaltzy speeches, a spectacular explosion and some bizarre out-of-body experiences for one special agent whose life hangs in the balance.
When it first appeared on bookshelves it was marketed with a schmaltzy romance cover.
Now for the schmaltzy moment of the set with an infectious chorus.

Share a funny, sentimental or musical birthday wish.
What are the best sentimental gifts for girlfriends?
Capcom Arcade Stadium Makes a Sentimental Space For.
They want to read a more sentimental news.
Of course, there are the more sentimental acknowledgments.
Thank you for visiting The Sentimental Charm Co.
Small items of sentimental value, jewellery, photographs, etc.
"My garden is kind of sentimental," he said.
The circumstances were rather sentimental and somewhat melodramatic.
Butthe sentimental value of the property cannot drive ourdecision in this case, because sentimental value is not abasis for construing the Bankruptcy Code.