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MAWKISH
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
mawkish (comparative more mawkish, superlative most mawkish)
(archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
(archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment; maudlin.
Synonyms
• (excessively or falsely sentimental): cutesy, schmaltzy
Antonyms
• (excessively or falsely sentimental): rational
Anagrams
• hawkism
Source: Wiktionary
Mawk"ish, a. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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