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Mawkish definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAWK'ISH, a. Apt to cause satiety or lothing.
So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English mawke maggot, probably from Old Norse mathkr — more at maggot Date: circa 1697 1. having an insipid often unpleasant taste 2. sickly or puerilely sentimental • mawkishly adverb • mawkishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. 2 having a faint sickly flavour. Derivatives: mawkishly adv. mawkishness n. Etymology: obs. mawk maggot f. ON mathkr f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mawkish Mawk"ish, a. [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending. = soppy ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Insipid, flat, vapid, tasteless, stale, sickly, nauseous, disgusting.

Moby Thesaurus

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, yucky