mawkish
adj/ˈmɔːkɪʃ/UK/ˈmɑːkɪʃ/
Etymology
Definitions
Excessively or falsely sentimental
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- I found [Christoph] Buchel’s appropriation of the boat in which so many migrants lost their lives a vile and mawkish spectacle in the context of the biennale.
- The tabloids branded him James Hewitt forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.
Feeling sick, queasy.
Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
The neighborhood
- synonymbathetic
- synonymcheesy
- synonymcorny
- synonymdrippy
- synonymgooey
- synonymhokey
- synonymicky
- synonymkitsch
- synonymkitschy
- synonymmaudlin
- synonymmawkish
- synonymmushy
- antonymapathetic
- antonymrational
- antonymstoic
- neighborcampy
- neighborcloying
- neighborcarried away
- neighborworked up
- neighboremotional
- neighborsentimental
- neighborcutesy
- neighborprecious
- neighborsaccharine
- neighborsugary
- neighbortwee
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mawkish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA