mawkish
[maw-kish]
adjective
characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
Origin of mawkish
Synonyms for mawkish
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Related Words for mawkish
mushy, gooey, sloppy, cloying, sappy, maudlin, teary, feeble, nauseating, romantic, sickening, bathetic, gushy, schmaltzy, gushing, lovey-doveyExamples from the Web for mawkish
Contemporary Examples of mawkish
The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish.
Historical Examples of mawkish
What a fool, what a weak, mawkish, insipid fool he had made of himself!
Spring StreetJames H. Richardson
For mawkish, sentimental religion the Count had an honest contempt.
History of the Moravian ChurchJ. E. Hutton
There was no mawkish sentiment—no melancholy in his make-up.
Robert ToombsPleasant A. Stovall
It's all splendid and barbaric; no mawkish sentiment about it.
Peking DustEllen N. La Motte
This is no time for trifling, nor for mawkish sentimentality.
TheftJack London
mawkish
adjective
Word Origin for mawkish
C17: from obsolete mawk maggot + -ish
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