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- MAWKISH Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Its earliest sense, used in the late 17th century but now obsolete, was synonymous with squeamish (understandable!) but not long after that mawkish was used to describe an unpleasant, nauseating, often sickeningly sweet flavor
- MAWKISH Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
MAWKISH definition: characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin See examples of mawkish used in a sentence
- MAWKISH | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
MAWKISH definition: 1 showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way: 2 showing emotion or love in an awkward or… Learn more
- mawkish - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Adjective mawkish (comparative more mawkish, superlative most mawkish) Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment Synonyms: cutesy, maudlin, schmaltzy, sickly-sweet, slushy, mushy, soppy, treacly; see also Thesaurus: mawkish Antonym: rational
- mawkish adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of mawkish adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- MAWKISH definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly
- mawkish, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective mawkish, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- Mawkish Definition Meaning - YourDictionary
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy From mawk +"Ž -ish It was sentimental, moving, yet not mawkish But maybe the program's greatest achievement was avoiding mawkish sentimentality
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