mawkish
2
9.4
- adjective
- /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/
:
sensiblero
- The link may be too mawkish for some folks to get through, but the refrain is a sweet lullaby:
- sentimental and mawkish
- mawkish movie
And I really don't say that to be mawkish.
- And I really don't say that to be mawkish.
Examples
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His speech was filled with mawkish sentiments that felt forced rather than genuine.
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I tried watching Bokura ga Ita but found it a little too sappy and mawkish.
Blog text (22) -
- Mawkish or not, he's completely devoted.
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Apparently the judges are rather tempted by that kind of mawkish sentimentality.
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Instead of a mawkish tale, we are treated to a curious and whimsical meditation on love and living, one that is simultaneously devastating and inspiring.
Academic text (2012) -
We may find them mawkish, hypocritical, condescending, and, at the very least, unpersuasive and unrealistic.
Academic text (1990) -
It's somewhat anticlimactic to see that the heroic struggle for recognition and exposure recounted by the documentary culminated in the release of Making Love (1982), a mawkish celebration of guess what.
Academic text (2010) -
NASA Administrator Admiral Richard Truly continued in this mawkish vein by quoting lengthy musings from novelist James Michener (the only space "authority" he cited).
Academic text (1992) -
I was convinced that I was a 'serious novelist,' and I labored long and hard over several unpublished (and unpublishable) novels that moped around the edges of mawkish contemporary tragedy.
Fiction book (1999) -
The movie's mawkish ending left many viewers rolling their eyes at its exaggerated emotions.
Synonyms
165
4.5
Having strong warm feelings about people or things from the past, often too emotional
56
4.6
Feels too sentimental and silly, like a movie or card
32
5.6
Showing feelings in a way that is too strong
27
4.3
Showing too much emotion in a way that seems silly or fake
23
7.0
Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake
23
8.2
Showing fake feeling and too much emotion
8
8.0
Too emotional in a way that seems silly or not sincere
8
8.2
Too sentimental or brightly decorated and not in good taste
6
7.0
Showing too much emotion in a way that feels silly
3
8.2
Too sweet or emotional in a way that makes you feel sick
3
5.0
Showing too much feeling for the situation
2
8.7
Too emotional in a way that feels false or silly
1
7.9
Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake
1
5.8
Too emotional and sentimental in a way that seems silly
1
8.1
Too sweet or emotional in a way that feels false
1
5.4
Overly sentimental and emotional in a way that seems false
1
9.9
Too sentimental in a way that feels fake or silly
1
9.9
Being too cute and childish in a sweet, exaggerated way
Being very emotional in a way that feels fake
Being too emotional in a cheap, false way
Too sweet and emotional so it feels false
Too emotional and sweet in a way that feels fake
Too sweet and sentimental in tone or style
Having too much sugar in taste or feeling too emotional
Too sentimental and not sincere
Too cute in a silly or fake way
Too sentimental and weak in feeling, often seeming false
Antonyms
How Sentimental
Surface Forms
Morphology
mawkish = mawk (opaque) = mawk + ish
The suffix '-ish' is productive, but the base 'mawk' is rare/archaic and not known to typical learners, so knowing common morphemes does not allow deriving the meaning.
Etymology
Mawkish comes from the old word mawk, which meant 'sick' or 'nauseous'. So mawkish describes something so sentimental it feels 'sick' or fake.