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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.]
   1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly
      nauseating; disgusting.
      [1913 Webster]

            So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
      --J. H. Newman.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
      [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]