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Mawkish

//ˈmɑːkɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.

    "Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android."

  2. 2
    Feeling sick, queasy. archaic, dialectal
  3. 3
    Sickening or insipid in taste or smell. archaic
Adjective
  1. 1
    effusively or insincerely emotional wordnet

Etymology

From mawk + -ish.

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