mawkish
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mawkish
- /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/ UK, US
- /ˈmɑːkɪʃ/ cot caught merger
Rhymes with -ɔːkɪʃ
adjective more mawkish · most mawkish · maukish
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Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.
Similar: cutesy, maudlin, schmaltzy, sickly-sweet, slushy, mushy, soppy, treacly · Opposite: rational
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Feeling sick, queasy.
Similar: nauseated, vomity, barfy, mawkish, nauseatic, pukey, pukish, queasy, sick, sick to one's stomach
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Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Similar: bland, cardboard, flaggy, flavorless, ingustible, intastable, savorless, insipid, tame, gustless, sapidless, mawkish
Similar: bathetic, cheesy, squishy, corny, drippy, gooey, hokey, icky, kitsch, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, overemotional, oversentimental, overwrought, sappy, schmaltzy, sickly sweet, slushy, soppy, soupy, syrupy, treacly · Opposite: apathetic, rational, stoic
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