mawkishlyadv.
/ˈmɔːkᵻʃli/, U.S. /ˈmɔkᵻʃli/, /ˈmɑkᵻʃli/ 1. So as to be mawkish in taste; nauseatingly. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adverb]
unsavourilyc1440
wallowishly1603
unsavourly1661
insipidly1699
mawkishly1758
1758 Monthly Rev. 19 592 Swallow it neither too hot nor mawkishly cool.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxix. 461 The berry is red and mawkishly sweet—not poisonous.
2. In a feebly sentimental manner; with excessive or cloying sentiment.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adverb]
mawkishly1816
sentimentally1816
dissolvingly1822
sweetly1840
maudlinly1854
sloppily1898
slushily1961
soppily1977
soupily1979
1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 230 A feeble, finical race, mawkishly puling about taste.
1853 C. Reade Christie Johnstone 279 I should have been very kind to you—mawkishly kind I fear, my sweet cousin.
1867 H. Bushnell Moral Uses Dark Things 282 Goodness is no such innocent mawkishly insipid character.
1987 V. Glendinning Rebecca West II. vii. 70 He didn't deserve love, he wrote mawkishly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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