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mawkish
(encz) | mawkish,falešně sentimentální adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Mawkish
(gcide) | Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.]
1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly
nauseating; disgusting.
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So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope.
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2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
--J. H. Newman.
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3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
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mawkish
(wn) | mawkish
adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
"a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin,
mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy,
sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] |
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mawkishly
(encz) | mawkishly, |
mawkishness
(encz) | mawkishness,falešná sentimentálnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Mawkish
(gcide) | Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.]
1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly
nauseating; disgusting.
[1913 Webster]
So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope.
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2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
--J. H. Newman.
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3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
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Mawkishly
(gcide) | Mawkishly \Mawk"ish*ly\, adv.
In a mawkish way.
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Mawkishness
(gcide) | Mawkishness \Mawk"ish*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being mawkish. --J. H. Newman.
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mawkishly
(wn) | mawkishly
adv 1: in a mawkish and emotional manner; "the violinist played
that piece mawkishly" [syn: mawkishly, drippily] |
mawkishness
(wn) | mawkishness
n 1: insincere pathos [syn: mawkishness, bathos]
2: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: mawkishness,
sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness,
sloppiness] |
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