mawkish
21mawkish — mawk|ish [ mɔkıʃ ] adjective emotional in a silly and embarrassing way ╾ mawk|ish|ly adverb ╾ mawk|ish|ness noun uncount …
22mawkish — mawk·ish || mÉ”Ëkɪʃ adj. emotional, overly sentimental; having a sickly flavor, nauseating …
23mawkish — adjective 1》 sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. 2》 archaic or dialect having a faint sickly flavour. Derivatives mawkishly adverb mawkishness noun Origin C17 (in the sense inclined to sickness ): from obs. mawk maggot , from ON mathkr, of Gmc …
24mawkish — a. Insipid, flat, vapid, tasteless, stale, sickly, nauseous, disgusting …
25mawkish — adj 1. sickening, nauseating, nauseous, vomitory; repellent, sour, gone bad, putrid, foul, fetid, smelly; unsavory, tongue puckering; unpleasant, flat, stale, tasteless; insipid, namby pamby, vapid, jejune, Sl. blah. 2. sentimental, Sl. gooey,… …
26mawkish — mawk·ish …
27mawkish — UK [ˈmɔːkɪʃ] / US [ˈmɔkɪʃ] adjective emotional in a silly and embarrassing way Derived words: mawkishly adverb mawkishness noun uncountable …
28mawkish — mawk•ish [[t]ˈmɔ kɪʃ[/t]] adj. 1) sentimental; maudlin 2) mildly sickening in flavor • Etymology: 1660–70; obs. mawk maggot (< ON mathkr maggot) + ish I; see maggot mawk′ish•ly, adv. mawk′ish•ness, n …
29mawkish — adj. 1 sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. 2 having a faint sickly flavour. Derivatives: mawkishly adv. mawkishness n. Etymology: obs. mawk maggot f. ON mathkr f. Gmc …
30sentimental — sentimental, romantic, mawkish, maudlin, soppy, mushy, slushy are comparable when they mean unduly or affectedly emotional. Sentimental usually suggests emotion that does not arise from genuine or natural feeling but is evoked by an external… …
