[adj] effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [adj] being or resembling melting snow; "slushy snow"
bathetic, emotional, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, unfrozen