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mawkishness
noun
(mawk-ish-ness)
insincere pathos
Synonyms:
bathos
,
mawkishness
noun
(mawk-ish-ness)
falsely emotional in a maudlin way
Synonyms:
drippiness
,
mushiness
,
sentimentality
,
sloppiness
,
soupiness
,
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mawkishness
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sentimentality
,
bathos
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triteness
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didacticism
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pathos
,
sentimentalism
,
mushiness
,
lugubriousness
,
staginess
,
pretentiousness
,
schmaltz
,
facetiousness
,
melodrama
,
melodramatics
,
cheesiness
,
cloy
,
wistfulness
,
ponderousness
,
insipidity
,
melancholy
,
blandness
,
mournfulness
,
pompousness
,
banality
,
poignancy
,
ruefulness
,
pretension
,
theatricality
,
dreaminess
,
earnestness
,
insipidness
,
vapidity
,
tearjerking
,
glibness
,
sappiness
,
corniness
,
archness
,
knowingness
,
moroseness
,
conventionality
,
wryness
,
poeticism
,
ickiness
,
abjection
,
impishness
,
impassivity
,
creepiness
,
grandiloquence
,
chirpiness
,
grisliness
,
superciliousness
,
artifice
,
slyness
,
metafiction
,
plaintiveness
,
inwardness
,
tawdriness
,
ingenuousness
,
carnality
,
sheepishness
,
artificiality
,
affectless
,
daftness
,
sunniness
,
shapelessness
,
acerbity
,
stylisation
,
salaciousness
,
puerility
,
incredulousness
,
pensiveness
,
grotesquerie
,
blankness
,
misanthropy
,
lifelessness
,
unintelligibility
,
drollness
,
girlishness
,
brassiness
,
nasality
,
jaggedness
,
winsomeness
,
melancholia
,
bashfulness
,
nabokovian
,
sordidness
,
grand guignol
,
wittiness
,
profundity
,
unworldliness
,
kinkiness
,
gawkiness
,
grimness
,
affectations
,
slightness
,
mundaneness
,
absurdism
,
ghostliness
,
grotesqueness
,
irascibility
,
mawkishness
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