Novelettish
Novelettish adjective - Appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way.
Usage example: readers will encounter surprisingly novelettish dialogue for a work that is supposed to be a literary novel
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Wet and novelettish are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wet" instead an adjective "Novelettish".
Wet
Wet adjective - Appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way.
Usage example: things get more than a little wet during the opera's big death scene
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