mawkishness

Variant of mawkish

adjective

  1. having a sweet, weak, sickening taste; insipid or nauseating
  2. sentimental in a weak, insipid way, so as to be sickening

Origin: lit., maggoty < ME mawke, maggot < ON mathkr < IE base *math-, gnawing vermin > moth

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