Possible Clues:

• Overly mushy
• Maudlin
• Mawkish
• Sentimental
• Effusively or insincerely emotional
• Effusively emotional
• Insincerely or effusively sentimental
• Old-fashioned and sentimental
• School spirit, half lazy and over-sentimental
• Sentimental wife excluded from dance in school - goodness!