mawkish
IPA: mˈɔkɪʃ
adjective
- Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
- (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
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Examples of "mawkish" in Sentences
- Overall this is a mawkish and embarrassing article.
- Empire is not kept in such a mawkish, artificial manner.
- It continues to contain far too much mawkish sentimentality.
- The official lifted his hands to heaven in mawkish admiration.
- I'm thank you for toning down the embarrassingly mawkish praise.
- It is certainly debatable whether the comic is dated and mawkish.
- She expressed the bitterest scorn of my mawkish conscientiousness.
- CCD impaired journalists blot out the past and embrace the mawkish.
- In addition, I searched out mawkish or inappropriately toned modifiers.
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