| 释义 |
mawkishly, adv.|ˈmɔːkɪʃlɪ|
[-ly2.]
1. So as to be ‘mawkish’ in flavour.
1758Monthly Rev. 592 Swallow it neither too hot nor mawkishly cool. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxix. (1794) 461 The berry is red, and mawkishly sweet—not poisonous.
2. In a feebly sentimental manner.
1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 230 A feeble, finical race, mawkishly puling about taste. 1853Reade Chr. Johnstone 279, I should have been very kind to you—mawkishly kind I fear, my sweet cousin. 1867Bushnell Mor. Uses Dark Th. 282 Goodness is no such innocent mawkishly insipid character. |