pseudoromantic

adj

adj

Etymology From pseudo- + romantic.

Spuriously romantic; schmaltzy.

Pure fantasia as the fictional betrothal is, it illustrates how pseudoromantic and sentimental Bernard Shaw was at heart, in spite of his public pose...1963, Charles Garfield Lott Du Cann, The loves of George Bernard Shaw:
...she personally resented this increasingly dumb attempt to cash in on the pseudoromantic mystique of those particular olden days in this town...1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland:

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