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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