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

Examples of chocolate-box in a Sentence

a dog calendar that features the animals in cutesy, chocolate-box poses and robs them of their dignity

Word History

Etymology

from the pictures formerly commonly seen on boxes of chocolates

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above