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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: mawkish (0.03260 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to mawkish.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: mawkish mawkish adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressons of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry” [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Mawkish 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]
English → English (WordNet) Definition: mawkish mawkish adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressons of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry” [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Mawkish 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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