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mawkish
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Adjective mawkish has 1 sense
- mawkish(s = adj.all) bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" Derived forms noun mawkishness2, noun mawkishness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
mawkish, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.].
- Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting. [1913 Webster]"So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull." [1913 Webster]
- Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
- Weakly sentimental; maudlin. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mawkish, adj.
1 sentimental in a feeble or sickly way.
2 having a faint sickly flavour.
1 sentimental in a feeble or sickly way.
2 having a faint sickly flavour.
Derivative
mawkishly adv. mawkishness n.
Etymology
obs. mawk maggot f. ON mathkr f. Gmc
THESAURUS
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, yuckyROGET THESAURUS
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Insipidity
N insipidity, blandness, tastelessness, bland, void of taste, insipid, tasteless, gustless, savorless, ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild, untasted.
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