Mawkish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Excessively and objectionably sentimental. See Synonyms at sentimental.
  • adj. Sickening or insipid in taste.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Feeling sick, queasy.
  • adj. Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
  • adj. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.
  • adj. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
  • adj. Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Maggoty. [Not found in this literal sense. Compare mawky, 1.] Hence Loathsome; apt to cause loathing or nausea; sickening.
  • Insipid; sickening; sickly: as, mawkish champagne; mawkish sentimentality.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. effusively or insincerely emotional
  • Equivalent
    emotional   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nauseous    disgusting    squeamish    maudlin    emotional   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    hawkish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    maudlin    mushy    vapid    lackadaisical    elegiac    inodorous    bombastic    pedantic    hypocritical    unpractical