Adjective

• 1. effusively or insincerely emotional;

  "a bathetic novel"

  "maudlin expressons of sympathy"

  "mushy effusiveness"

  "a schmaltzy song"

  "sentimental soap operas"

  "slushy poetry"

• 2. artificially formal;

  "that artificial humility that her husband hated"

  "contrived coyness"

  "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"

  "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"