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Definition of mawkish in English Turkish dictionary
- fazla içli
- yavan
- tiksindirici
- tatsız
- {s} iğrenç
- {s} aşırı duygusal
- tiksindirici surette hisli
- iç bayıltıcı
- {s} aşırı içli
- mawkishness
- tiksindiricilik
- be mawkish
- iğrenç olmak
- mawkishly
- iç bayıltıcı şekilde
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Definition of mawkish in English English dictionary
- 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
- mawkishly
- In a mawkish manner
- mawkishly
- In a mawkish way
- mawkishly
- in a mawkish and emotional manner; "the violinist played that piece mawkishly
- mawkishly
- in an overly sentimental manner, in an emotional manner; in a sickly or nauseating manner
- mawkishness
- falsely emotional in a maudlin way
- mawkishness
- insincere pathos
- mawkishness
- {i} excessive sensitivity to the point of ridiculousness; state of being mawkish
- mawkishness
- The property of being mawkish
- mawkishness
- The quality or state of being mawkish
- mawkishness
- falsely emotional in a maudlin way insincere pathos
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