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Mawkish

Mawkish Meaning & Definition
Mawkish Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mawkish?

[adj] effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mawkish: bathetic | emotional | maudlin | mushy | schmaltzy | schmalzy | sentimental | slushy

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mawkish: bad | barfy | bathetic | beery | brackish | cloying | fetid | foul | fulsome | gooey | gushing | high | icky | luscious | maggoty | maudlin | mushy | namby-pamby | nasty | nauseant | nauseating | nauseous | noisome | nostalgic | nostomanic | noxious | offensive | overripe | oversentimental | oversentimentalized | oversweet | poisonous | rancid | rank | rebarbative | rich | romantic | rotten | saccharine | sappy | sentimental | sentimentalized | sickening | sickly-sweet | sloppy | slushy | soft | soppy | spoiled | sticky | tears | teary | vile | vomity | weevily | yucky

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Mawkish In Webster's Dictionary

\Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See {Mawk}.] 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. --J. H. Newman.

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