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- Dictionarymawkish/ˈmɔːkɪʃ/
adjective
- 1. sentimental in an exaggerated or false way: "a mawkish ode to parenthood"
- 2. having a faint sickly flavour: archaic, dialect "the mawkish smell of warm beer"
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showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way: The film lapses into mawkish sentimentality near the end. Synonyms. drippy informal disapproving. hokey US informal. maudlin. mushy. sentimental. slushy. soppy informal disapproving. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Sentimental and over-emotional. cloyingly. gauzily. gushily. gushy.
Mawkish means excessively sentimental or so sappy it's sickening. Which is how you'd describe two lovebirds gushing over each other or your grandma’s cooing and cheek pinches. The adjective mawkish came into vogue in the 1600s.
The meaning of MAWKISH is lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste. How to use mawkish in a sentence. The Squirming Origins of Mawkish
Define mawkish. mawkish synonyms, mawkish pronunciation, mawkish translation, English dictionary definition of mawkish. adj. 1. Excessively and objectionably sentimental. See Synonyms at sentimental.
Mawkish definition: characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.. See examples of MAWKISH used in a sentence.
showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way: The movie lapses into mawkish sentimentality near the end. Synonyms. drippy informal disapproving. hokey US informal. maudlin. mushy. sentimental. slushy. soppy informal disapproving. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Sentimental and over-emotional. cloyingly. gauzily. gushily. gushy.
You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly. [disapproval] A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending. Synonyms: sentimental, emotional, feeble, mushy [informal] More Synonyms of mawkish. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
