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Webster 1913 Edition
Mawkish
1.
Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.
So sweetly
mawkish’
, and so smoothly dull. Pope.
2.
Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
J. H. Newman.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mawkish
MAWK'ISH
,Adj.
So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull.
Definition 2024
mawkish
mawkish
English
Alternative forms
- maukish (obsolete)
Adjective
mawkish (comparative more mawkish, superlative most mawkish)
- (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
- (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
- Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- 2014 August 11, w:Dave Itzkoff, "Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
- Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.
- 2014 August 11, w:Dave Itzkoff, "Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
Antonyms
- (excessively or falsely sentimental): rational