figurative. Deliciously or alluringly sweet; honeyed; deceitfully or flatteringly pleasant; also, excessively or offensively sweet. Also adv.

Characterized by shallow sentimentality; mawkishly emotional; weakly sentimental.

figurative. Imbued with sickly, false, or feeble sentiment; overly sentimental.

Of feelings, etc.: Weak, mawkish.

Having power to produce vomiting. Also figurative sickening, mawkish.

= mawkish, adj. 3. Now rare.

= namby-pamby, adj.

Of persons, their dispositions and actions: Characterized by sentiment. Originally in favourable sense: Characterized by or exhibiting refined and…

figurative. Chiefly in playful or sarcastic use: Sweet.

figurative. Mawkish, cloying; excessively sentimental. Cf. sticky-sweet adj. at compounds, treacly, adj.

figurative. Sentimental, insipidly romantic.

A greetings card sent at Christmas, typically featuring traditional or stereotypical Christmas imagery, such as the Nativity scene, a Christmas…

Oversensitive, easily offended. rare.

Of speech, writing, thought, etc.: overly sentimental or romantic; mawkish, cloying, soppy.

Of a person or group of people: inclined to weak sentimentality, affectedly dainty; lacking vigour or drive; effeminate in expression or behaviour…

colloquial. Weakly sentimental.

figurative. Rubbishy, trivial.

Possessing sentimental characteristics; characterized by an exaggerated sentimentality.

Resembling a marshmallow, esp. in sweetness or softness of texture; (frequently figurative) cloying, sentimental.

(a) adj.(esp. overly or cloyingly) sentimental or romantic; (b) n. sentimental endearments; romantically pleasing circumstances, etc.; esp. (undue or…

Characterized by (excessive) sentimentality; sentimental, mawkish, soppy. Now rare.

Full of mawkish sentiment; foolishly affectionate; inane, indulgent; occasionally used affectionately. Also to be soppy on, to be infatuated with…

Given to melting (in various senses); soft and yielding.

figurative. Refined, genteel, sentimental; hence (esp. of a man) effeminate, homosexual.

Exuding sugar; sugary. Also absol. as n. (In quots. figurative.)

Extremely or excessively sentimental; corny.

Slushy; sloppy, sentimental.

Of a viscid or sticky nature; figurative, sentimental, mawkish. Also as n., sticky food; figurative, a man of weak character.

Sweet, sickly, sentimental; hence a general term of disapproval: nasty, repulsive, sticky, etc.; also, ill, sick.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Unsubtle; inauthentic; in poor taste; clichéd or excessively sentimental; (also) appealing or enjoyable despite or…

Drivelling, sloppily sentimental; having the characteristics of a ‘drip’ (see drip, n. 3c); ‘wet’. colloquial (originally U.S.).

Sentimental; mawkish.

Of a soft or wet nature; making, emitting, or characterized by a soft splashing sound or sounds. Also figurative.

Excessively sweet and sugary in tone.

figurative. Overly sentimental; mawkish, cloying, overblown.

= yucky, adj.

Nasty, unpleasant; sickly sentimental.

colloquial. figurative. Sickly sweet; sentimental; mawkish. Also: unctuous or ingratiating. Cf. to suck up 5 at suck, v. phrasal verbs 2.

= yucky, adj. a.

Of music, a song, etc.: (excessively) sentimental or romantic; schmaltzy.