didactic, maudlin, moralistic, sappy, pretentious, cloying, melodramatic, judgmental, cliched, saccharine, corny, hokey, mawkish, trite, pedantic, treacly, condescending, formulaic, hackneyed, schmaltzy, glib, churchy, talky, stagey, polemical, sanctimonious, cheesy, overdramatic, politically correct, exhortatory, overlong, cutesy, dogmatic, nihilistic, campy, whiny, twee, unentertaining, simplistic, overwrought, humorous, funny, pompous, overfamiliar, wordy, obtuse, naggy, reductive, meanspirited, soppy, humorless, sarcastic, humanistic, escapist, pollyannaish, jingoistic, dopier, banal, sententious, platitudinous, morose, syrupy, bathetic, hummable, boring, expository, draggy, catchy, stagy, pushy, edgier, weepy, introspective, solipsistic, lunkheaded, declamatory, bland, unoriginal, sneery, singable, uplifting, bombastic, confrontational, overdetermined, unenlightening, snarkier, tiresome, nuanced, vacuous, cynical, pulpier, shrill, politically incorrect, inoffensive, mushy, egoistical, tearjerking, ponderous, snarky, idealistic, shavian, flippant, folksy, upbeat, inspirational, prosy, gossipy, hortatory, nonsense, admonitory, winded, boastful, chatty, fact, jocular, lighthearted, sentimental, adulatory, breezy

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