adj. sensational, sensationalistic, dramatic, stagy, theatrical, emotionalistic, (over-)sentimental, (over-)sentimentalized, overdrawn, overworked, overwrought, overdone, exaggerated, blood-and-thunder, histrionic, Colloq hammy, US schmaltzy, hokey The slightest thing that happened to him he blew up with melodramatic effect to elicit Maria's sympathy
MELODRAMATIC
Meaning of MELODRAMATIC in English
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