About The Word Mawkish
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Mawkish
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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 See Also | 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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