mawkish

mawkish
    adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
           "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
           "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
           poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin},
           {mawkish}, {kitschy}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
           {sentimental}, {soppy}, {soupy}, {slushy}]
    

Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See {Mawk}.]
   1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly
      nauseating; disgusting.
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            So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope.
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   2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
      --J. H. Newman.
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   3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
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56 Moby Thesaurus words for "mawkish":
      bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloying, fetid, foul,
      fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, luscious, maggoty, maudlin,
      mushy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome,
      nostalgic, nostomanic, noxious, offensive, overripe,
      oversentimental, oversentimentalized, oversweet, poisonous, rancid,
      rank, rebarbative, rich, romantic, rotten, saccharine, sappy,
      sentimental, sentimentalized, sickening, sickly-sweet, sloppy,
      slushy, soft, soppy, spoiled, sticky, tears, teary, vile, vomity,
      weevily, yucky