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mawkish


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mawkish  \Mawk"ish\,  a.  [Orig.,  maggoty.  See  {Mawk}.] 
  1.  Apt  to  cause  satiety  or  loathing;  nauseous;  disgusting. 
 
  So  sweetly  mawkish',  and  so  smoothly  dull.  --Pope. 
 
  2.  Easily  disgusted;  squeamish;  sentimentally  fastidious. 
  --J.  H.  Newman. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mawkish 
  adj  :  effusively  or  insincerely  emotional;  "a  bathetic  novel"; 
  "maudlin  expressons  of  sympathy";  "mushy  effusiveness"; 
  "a  schmaltzy  song";  "sentimental  soap  operas";  "slushy 
  poetry"  [syn:  {bathetic},  {maudlin},  {mushy},  {schmaltzy}, 
  {schmalzy},  {sentimental},  {slushy}] 




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