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mawkishness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bathos |
| Type of | sentimentality |
| Derivation | mawkish |
mawkishness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| Type of | emotionality, emotionalism |
| Has types | schmalz, sentimentalism, shmaltz, schmaltz, corn |
| Derivation | mawkish |
Examples of mawkishness
mawkishness
It's narcotic mawkishness, with notes played on heartstrings like a 12-string guitar.
From the dailyherald.com
The tone, though frankly sentimental at times, thankfully never crosses into mawkishness.
From the ocregister.com
Alas, We Bought A Zoo continues his downward trajectory into mawkishness.
From the independent.co.uk
And sure enough, there was plenty of childbirth and mawkishness tonight.
From the metro.co.uk
Guests of the Nation suppresses anger with a disillusionment that teeters on mawkishness.
From the time.com
Anybody who watches BL is probably watching it FOR it's mawkishness.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
However, social comment often tipped into mawkishness in other works, including Morbelli's.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Harbach leans on Emerson and Whitman, too, to score moments of high emotion without mawkishness.
From the independent.co.uk
Often sentimental, Dodd eventually pleaded his cause with the mawkishness of a white-haired Uriah Heep.
From the time.com
- Insincere pathos
- Falsely emotional in a maudlin way
- (mawkish) bathetic: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
- The property of being mawkish
- (mawkish) Feeling sick, queasy; Sickening or insipid in taste or smell; Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment
