hokey

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"