pseudoromantic
English
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[edit]pseudoromantic (comparative more pseudoromantic, superlative most pseudoromantic)
- 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
[edit]spuriously romantic