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mawkish

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Adjective
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mawk=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

mawkisha. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.].
  •  Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.  [1913 Webster]
    "So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.  J. H. Newman.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Weakly sentimental; maudlin.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mawkish, adj.
1 sentimental in a feeble or sickly way.
2 having a faint sickly flavour.

Derivative
mawkishly adv. mawkishness n.
Etymology
obs. mawk maggot f. ON mathkr f. Gmc

THESAURUS

mawkish

bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloying, fetid, foul, fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, luscious, maggoty, maudlin, mushy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, nostalgic, nostomanic, noxious, offensive, overripe, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, oversweet, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rich, romantic, rotten, saccharine, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sickening, sickly-sweet, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, spoiled, sticky, tears, teary, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky

ROGET THESAURUS

mawkish

Insipidity

N insipidity, blandness, tastelessness, bland, void of taste, insipid, tasteless, gustless, savorless, ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild, untasted.


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