'Mawkish' definitions:

Definition of 'mawkish'

From: WordNet
adjective
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]

Definition of 'Mawkish'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

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