mawkish

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Feeling sick, queasy
Sickening or insipid in taste or smell
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment
sickening or insipid
{a} unsavory, sickish, squeamish
sickening or insipid in taste
effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
excessively sentimental; sentimental ad nauseam
disapproval You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending. = soppy. showing too much emotion in a way that is embarrassing = sentimental (mawk (15-19 centuries), from mathkr)
Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting
{s} emotional, overly sentimental; having a sickly flavor, nauseating
Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious
mawkishness
{n} a mawkish quality or state, sickness
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In a mawkish manner
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In a mawkish way
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in a mawkish and emotional manner; "the violinist played that piece mawkishly
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in an overly sentimental manner, in an emotional manner; in a sickly or nauseating manner
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falsely emotional in a maudlin way
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insincere pathos
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{i} excessive sensitivity to the point of ridiculousness; state of being mawkish
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The property of being mawkish
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The quality or state of being mawkish
mawkishness
falsely emotional in a maudlin way insincere pathos
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