pseudoromantic

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ romantic.

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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...

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