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mawkish
adjective
(mawk-ish)
effusively or insincerely emotional
Synonyms:
bathetic
,
drippy
,
hokey
,
kitschy
,
maudlin
,
mushy
,
sappy
,
schmaltzy
,
schmalzy
,
sentimental
,
slushy
,
soppy
,
soupy
,
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mawkish
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maudlin
,
schmaltzy
,
bathetic
,
sentimental
,
mushy
,
emotional
,
slushy
,
schmalzy
,
cloying
,
sentimentality
,
hokey
,
melodramatic
,
sappy
,
treacly
,
saccharine
,
trite
,
soppy
,
overwrought
,
cliched
,
hackneyed
,
corny
,
preachy
,
weepy
,
pretentious
,
banal
,
cheesy
,
syrupy
,
formulaic
,
cutesy
,
poignant
,
insipid
,
melancholy
,
overlong
,
lugubrious
,
elegiac
,
wistful
,
melancholic
,
cringeworthy
,
stagy
,
overdramatic
,
gushy
,
vapid
,
puerile
,
crass
,
morose
,
mournful
,
ponderous
,
heartrending
,
jingoistic
,
vacuous
,
twee
,
lachrymose
,
unaffecting
,
overfamiliar
,
stagey
,
leaden
,
histrionic
,
drippy
,
sententious
,
revelatory
,
parodic
,
pedantic
,
turgid
,
overdetermined
,
talky
,
dolorous
,
hagiographic
,
unamusing
,
didactic
,
unenlightening
,
artless
,
droll
,
unheroic
,
slapstick
,
amusing
,
tragicomic
,
reductive
,
florid
,
mordant
,
solipsistic
,
platitudinous
,
endearing
,
poetic
,
rebarbative
,
portentous
,
hitchcockian
,
incantatory
,
reverential
,
campy
,
risible
,
exhortatory
,
nabokovian
,
pantomimic
,
glib
,
unfunny
,
heartfelt
,
unpoetic
,
unentertaining
,
comical
,
plangent
,
mawkish
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