Definition of mawkish in English:

mawkish

adjective ˈmɔːkɪʃˈmɔkɪʃ

1Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way.
a mawkish ode to parenthood
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of ‘the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood’.
- While some hearts have filled with kindness and gratitude, others must have sunk an inch or two, weighed by the mawkish sentiment and the thought that it was all just a bit much.
- No pods being immediately in evidence, we suspect it was a more run-of-the-mill form of mawkish, voter-confidence-reducing sentimentality disguised as comradely goodwill.
- Imbued with tenderness and earthy humour, the film never crosses the line between sensitivity and mawkish sentimentality, and the action sequences, particularly with the whales, are deftly staged.
- This, I hope, won't sound mawkish, but the poems strike me as gentler too.
- An awful sentimental barrage of mawkish music informed us of an appropriate emotional response.
- Public displays of emotion were, he argued, a ‘symptom of a fragmented society that has exchanged reason for emotion, action for gesture, cool reserve for mawkish sentimentality’.
- This is a refreshing development, given that modern theatre is all too often marked by self-indulgence and mawkish sentimentality.
- It's as manipulative, sentimental and mawkish as any film could possibly dare to be - cinematic saccharine with a shimmering pro-fantasy, anti-science trim.
- But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up.
- It is a sentimental, even mawkish, language, richly mined with hidden menace and self-deceptions.
- Her experience works well for the film, as her rendering of the gritty harbour town anchors it in a sense of reality, avoiding overly mawkish sentimentality.
- The death of a footballer is too often used as an excuse by the media and excessively emotional fans for an outbreak of mawkish sentimentality.
- There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.
- His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish.
- I think you know by now that I'm not the mawkish, overly sentimental type.
- Rarely does an artist expose his or her personal vulnerability without descending into the mawkish and sentimental.
- This time, it was just an outpouring of mawkish sentiment.
- But the obvious pitfalls, of making the effort mawkish, sentimental and overly sanctimonious, are always there.
- But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?
Synonyms
sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite
British twee
informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling
British informal soppy
North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky
1. 1.1dialect, archaic Having a faint sickly flavour.
  the mawkish smell of warm beer

Derivatives

mawkishly

adverb ˈmɔːkɪʃ(ə)liˈmɔkɪʃli

Don't think I don't realize how crazy this sounds, how mawkishly sentimental, how downright ‘unpatriotic’.
Example sentencesExamples
- He croons the words mawkishly, holding the mike close to his mouth, keeping a straight face.
- Firstly, it makes the film look like a pile of mawkishly sentimental schlock - which it's not.
- He steered the client out in the corridor, where the poor man, clearly confused and with no verbal skills, stood for a few minutes staring mawkishly around.
- Sure, he was fervently patriotic, mawkishly sentimental and often ludicrous.

mawkishness

noun ˈmɔːkɪʃnəsˈmɔkɪʃnəs

But to delight the spirit is not to engage in mawkishness or to cover the truth with a veneer of deceptive delicacy either, for the truth can never bear that.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is in sharing this history that they begin to conquer it, and it is by including the specific and ugly details of their painful marriages that the novel sidesteps sentimentality and mawkishness in its happy and cathartic conclusion.
- He emerges as a tender and appreciative lover, without a trace of mawkishness or blackmail in his tone; happiness oozes from his letters, a holiday atmosphere of being truant from his professional life.
- The composer can mistake cuteness for cleverness, and like any unabashed sentimentalist, he's often a stone's throw from mawkishness.
- It could easily have degenerated into dreadful mawkishness but self-deprecating humour helped save the day.

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'inclined to sickness'): from obsolete mawk 'maggot', from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.

Rhymes

hawkish

Definition of mawkish in US English:

mawkish

adjectiveˈmɔkɪʃˈmôkiSH

1Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way.
a mawkish poem
Example sentencesExamples
- It's as manipulative, sentimental and mawkish as any film could possibly dare to be - cinematic saccharine with a shimmering pro-fantasy, anti-science trim.
- This time, it was just an outpouring of mawkish sentiment.
- Public displays of emotion were, he argued, a ‘symptom of a fragmented society that has exchanged reason for emotion, action for gesture, cool reserve for mawkish sentimentality’.
- There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.
- No pods being immediately in evidence, we suspect it was a more run-of-the-mill form of mawkish, voter-confidence-reducing sentimentality disguised as comradely goodwill.
- I think you know by now that I'm not the mawkish, overly sentimental type.
- This, I hope, won't sound mawkish, but the poems strike me as gentler too.
- Rarely does an artist expose his or her personal vulnerability without descending into the mawkish and sentimental.
- The death of a footballer is too often used as an excuse by the media and excessively emotional fans for an outbreak of mawkish sentimentality.
- It is a sentimental, even mawkish, language, richly mined with hidden menace and self-deceptions.
- But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?
- His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish.
- But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up.
- Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of ‘the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood’.
- Imbued with tenderness and earthy humour, the film never crosses the line between sensitivity and mawkish sentimentality, and the action sequences, particularly with the whales, are deftly staged.
- This is a refreshing development, given that modern theatre is all too often marked by self-indulgence and mawkish sentimentality.
- But the obvious pitfalls, of making the effort mawkish, sentimental and overly sanctimonious, are always there.
- Her experience works well for the film, as her rendering of the gritty harbour town anchors it in a sense of reality, avoiding overly mawkish sentimentality.
- An awful sentimental barrage of mawkish music informed us of an appropriate emotional response.
- While some hearts have filled with kindness and gratitude, others must have sunk an inch or two, weighed by the mawkish sentiment and the thought that it was all just a bit much.
Synonyms
sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite
1. 1.1dialect, archaic Having a faint sickly flavor.
  the mawkish smell of warm beer

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘inclined to sickness’): from obsolete mawk ‘maggot’, from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.

单词	mawkish
释义	Definition of mawkish in English: mawkish adjective ˈmɔːkɪʃˈmɔkɪʃ 1Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way. a mawkish ode to parenthood Example sentencesExamples Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of ‘the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood’. While some hearts have filled with kindness and gratitude, others must have sunk an inch or two, weighed by the mawkish sentiment and the thought that it was all just a bit much. No pods being immediately in evidence, we suspect it was a more run-of-the-mill form of mawkish, voter-confidence-reducing sentimentality disguised as comradely goodwill. Imbued with tenderness and earthy humour, the film never crosses the line between sensitivity and mawkish sentimentality, and the action sequences, particularly with the whales, are deftly staged. This, I hope, won't sound mawkish, but the poems strike me as gentler too. An awful sentimental barrage of mawkish music informed us of an appropriate emotional response. Public displays of emotion were, he argued, a ‘symptom of a fragmented society that has exchanged reason for emotion, action for gesture, cool reserve for mawkish sentimentality’. This is a refreshing development, given that modern theatre is all too often marked by self-indulgence and mawkish sentimentality. It's as manipulative, sentimental and mawkish as any film could possibly dare to be - cinematic saccharine with a shimmering pro-fantasy, anti-science trim. But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up. It is a sentimental, even mawkish, language, richly mined with hidden menace and self-deceptions. Her experience works well for the film, as her rendering of the gritty harbour town anchors it in a sense of reality, avoiding overly mawkish sentimentality. The death of a footballer is too often used as an excuse by the media and excessively emotional fans for an outbreak of mawkish sentimentality. There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears. His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish. I think you know by now that I'm not the mawkish, overly sentimental type. Rarely does an artist expose his or her personal vulnerability without descending into the mawkish and sentimental. This time, it was just an outpouring of mawkish sentiment. But the obvious pitfalls, of making the effort mawkish, sentimental and overly sanctimonious, are always there. But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport? Synonyms sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite British twee informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling British informal soppy North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky 1.1dialect, archaic Having a faint sickly flavour. the mawkish smell of warm beer Derivatives mawkishly adverb ˈmɔːkɪʃ(ə)liˈmɔkɪʃli Don't think I don't realize how crazy this sounds, how mawkishly sentimental, how downright ‘unpatriotic’. Example sentencesExamples He croons the words mawkishly, holding the mike close to his mouth, keeping a straight face. Firstly, it makes the film look like a pile of mawkishly sentimental schlock - which it's not. He steered the client out in the corridor, where the poor man, clearly confused and with no verbal skills, stood for a few minutes staring mawkishly around. Sure, he was fervently patriotic, mawkishly sentimental and often ludicrous. mawkishness noun ˈmɔːkɪʃnəsˈmɔkɪʃnəs But to delight the spirit is not to engage in mawkishness or to cover the truth with a veneer of deceptive delicacy either, for the truth can never bear that. Example sentencesExamples It is in sharing this history that they begin to conquer it, and it is by including the specific and ugly details of their painful marriages that the novel sidesteps sentimentality and mawkishness in its happy and cathartic conclusion. He emerges as a tender and appreciative lover, without a trace of mawkishness or blackmail in his tone; happiness oozes from his letters, a holiday atmosphere of being truant from his professional life. The composer can mistake cuteness for cleverness, and like any unabashed sentimentalist, he's often a stone's throw from mawkishness. It could easily have degenerated into dreadful mawkishness but self-deprecating humour helped save the day. Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'inclined to sickness'): from obsolete mawk 'maggot', from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin. Rhymes hawkish Definition of mawkish in US English: mawkish adjectiveˈmɔkɪʃˈmôkiSH 1Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. a mawkish poem Example sentencesExamples It's as manipulative, sentimental and mawkish as any film could possibly dare to be - cinematic saccharine with a shimmering pro-fantasy, anti-science trim. This time, it was just an outpouring of mawkish sentiment. Public displays of emotion were, he argued, a ‘symptom of a fragmented society that has exchanged reason for emotion, action for gesture, cool reserve for mawkish sentimentality’. There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears. No pods being immediately in evidence, we suspect it was a more run-of-the-mill form of mawkish, voter-confidence-reducing sentimentality disguised as comradely goodwill. I think you know by now that I'm not the mawkish, overly sentimental type. This, I hope, won't sound mawkish, but the poems strike me as gentler too. Rarely does an artist expose his or her personal vulnerability without descending into the mawkish and sentimental. The death of a footballer is too often used as an excuse by the media and excessively emotional fans for an outbreak of mawkish sentimentality. It is a sentimental, even mawkish, language, richly mined with hidden menace and self-deceptions. But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport? His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish. But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up. Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of ‘the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood’. Imbued with tenderness and earthy humour, the film never crosses the line between sensitivity and mawkish sentimentality, and the action sequences, particularly with the whales, are deftly staged. This is a refreshing development, given that modern theatre is all too often marked by self-indulgence and mawkish sentimentality. But the obvious pitfalls, of making the effort mawkish, sentimental and overly sanctimonious, are always there. Her experience works well for the film, as her rendering of the gritty harbour town anchors it in a sense of reality, avoiding overly mawkish sentimentality. An awful sentimental barrage of mawkish music informed us of an appropriate emotional response. While some hearts have filled with kindness and gratitude, others must have sunk an inch or two, weighed by the mawkish sentiment and the thought that it was all just a bit much. Synonyms sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite 1.1dialect, archaic Having a faint sickly flavor. the mawkish smell of warm beer Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘inclined to sickness’): from obsolete mawk ‘maggot’, from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.
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