chocolate-box
adjective
: superficially pretty or sentimental
Synonyms
- cloying
- corny
- drippy
- fruity
- gooey
- lovey-dovey
- maudlin
- mawkish
- mushy
- novelettish
- saccharine
- sappy
- schmaltzy
- sentimental
- sloppy
- slushy
- soppy
- soupy
- spoony
- spooney
- sticky
- sugarcoated
- sugary
- wet
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Word History
Etymology
from the pictures formerly commonly seen on boxes of chocolates
First Known Use
1892, in the meaning defined above
chocolate-box
adjective
as in sentimental
appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way a dog calendar that features the animals in cutesy, chocolate-box poses and robs them of their dignity Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- sentimental
- saccharine
- mawkish
- sloppy
- schmaltzy
- sticky
- sugary
- soppy
- maudlin
- cloying
- gooey
- wet
- fruity
- corny
- drippy
- sugarcoated
- sappy
- fuzzy
- spoony
- slushy
- mushy
- lovey-dovey
- dreamy
- soupy
- spooney
- moony
- novelettish
- nostalgic
- melodramatic
- twee
- moonstruck
- vapid
- soap-operatic
- soapy
- insipid
- watery
- tasteless
- starry-eyed
- cutesy
- sudsy
- feel-good
- misty-eyed
- flat
- soft-boiled
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- unsentimental
- unadulterated
- unvarnished
- cynical
- antisentimental
- hardheaded
- hard-edged
- hard-boiled
- riddles out
- riddling
- riddling (out)
- riddling out
- riddlings
- ride
- ride (out)
- ride a wave of
- ride a/the wave of
- ride circuit
- ride cymbal
- ride down
- ride for a fall
- ride herd on
- ride high
- ride of mercury
- ride off
- ride on
- ride on (something or someone)
- ride on something or someone
- ride out
- ride out the storm
- ride roughshod
- ride share
- ride shares