Mawkish Definition

môkĭsh
adjective
So weakly or insipidly sentimental as to be sickening.
Webster's New World
Having a sweet, weak, sickening taste; insipid or nauseating.
Webster's New World

Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.

Wiktionary

(archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.

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Origin of Mawkish

  • From Middle English mawke maggot variant of magot maggot

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From mawk +"Ž -ish.

    From Wiktionary

Mawkish Sentence Examples

  • It was sentimental, moving, yet not mawkish.

  • But maybe the program's greatest achievement was avoiding mawkish sentimentality.

  • She is unsentimental, unpretentious, never mawkish, never the slightest bit swamped with self-pity, nor ever less than clear.

  • The salt has a sweet, mawkish taste.

  • Let's not get mawkish here, suffice to say that life has been kind to me in an absent-minded ' who's he?

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Words Starting With

MMAMAW

Words Ending With

HSHISH

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Words Starting With M and Ending With H

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With M7 Letter Words Ending With H

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