mawkish
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- effusively or insincerely emotional
Adj
- Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- Feeling sick, queasy.
- Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Origin / Etymology
From mawk + -ish.
Synonyms
bathetic, cutesy, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sickly-sweet, slushy, soppy, soupy
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
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