Artificially formal
English: artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted
hokeyEnglish
hokey, artificial, bathetic, contrived, drippy
Adjective
Effusively or insincerely emotional
English: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy