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.
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So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope.
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2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
--J. H. Newman.
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3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
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