pseudoromantic

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ romantic

Adjective

pseudoromantic (comparative more pseudoromantic, superlative most pseudoromantic)

1. Spuriously romantic; schmaltzy.
   • 1963, Charles Garfield Lott Du Cann, The loves of George Bernard Shaw:

     Pure fantasia as the fictional betrothal is, it illustrates how pseudoromantic and sentimental Bernard Shaw was at heart, in spite of his public pose...

   • 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland:

     ...she personally resented this increasingly dumb attempt to cash in on the pseudoromantic mystique of those particular olden days in this town...

Translations

spuriously romantic