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mawkish 音標拼音: [m'ɔkɪʃ] a. 氣味不佳的,令人作嘔的,感傷的 氣味不佳的,令人作嘔的,感傷的 mawkish adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; " a bathetic novel"; " maudlin expressions of sympathy"; " mushy effusiveness"; " a schmaltzy song"; " sentimental soap operas"; " slushy poetry" [ synonym: { bathetic}, { drippy}, { hokey}, { maudlin}, { mawkish}, { kitschy}, { mushy}, { schmaltzy}, { schmalzy}, { sentimental}, { soppy}, { soupy}, { slushy}] Mawkish \ Mawk" ish\, a. [ Orig., maggoty. See { Mawk}.] 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting. [ 1913 Webster] So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. -- J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin. [ PJC] 56 Moby Thesaurus words for " mawkish": 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
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