Associations to the word «Mawkish»
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Wiktionary
MAWKISH, adjective. (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
MAWKISH, adjective. (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
MAWKISH, adjective. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
Dictionary definition
MAWKISH, adjective. Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry".
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.