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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sentimentalism, sentiment, mushiness, reminiscence, nostalgia, bathos, triteness, melodramaExamples from the Web for mawkishness
Historical Examples of mawkishness
The mawkishness of the sentiment was only surpassed by the feebleness of the style.
A Book for All ReadersAinsworth Rand Spofford
In this expectancy of death there is no mawkishness, no pose.
Comrade KropotkinVictor Robinson
There is nothing in it of the mawkishness of Kelly nor of the pompous affectation of Cumberland.
She was told that it bored him to play the lover; that his misconduct was her fault; and then she was accused of mawkishness!
The BertramsAnthony Trollope
In such a shape the patriotic instinct may tend in natures weaker than Bolingbroke's to mawkishness or sentimentality.
Shakespeare and the Modern StageSir Sidney Lee
mawkish
adjective
Word Origin for mawkish
C17: from obsolete mawk maggot + -ish
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