Definition of Mawkish

1. Adjective. Effusively or insincerely emotional. "Slushy poetry"


Definition of Mawkish

1. a. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

Definition of Mawkish

1. Adjective. (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy. ¹

2. Adjective. (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell. ¹

3. Adjective. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mawkish

1. offensively sentimental [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mawkish

maw-gut
maw-worm
maw-worms
maw worm
maw worms
mawashi
mawbound
mawbyite
mawed
mawing
mawk
mawkier
mawkiest
mawkin
mawkins
mawkish (current term)
mawkishly
mawkishness
mawkishnesses
mawks
mawky
mawle
mawles
mawlid
mawlids
mawmenny
mawmet
mawmetries
mawmetry
mawmets

Literary usage of Mawkish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Besides, we tread but a perpetual round ; "j We ne'er strike out, but beat the former ground, V And the same mawkish joys in the same track are found. ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The criticism of a later generation, however, pronounces it mawkish in sentiment and unreal in conduct. It stands among the fading fancies of an earlier and ..."

3. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... the family—-Precaution against famine—English praying and card-playing—Exercise for mind and body—Knight-errantry—Sentimentality and mawkish- ness— The ..."

4. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"294 Furious he dives, precipitately tí. 1). ii. 316 Of solid proof, impenetrably i/. D. iii. 26 So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly d. ..."

5. On the Life, Writings, and Genius of Akenside: With Some Account of His Friends by Charles Bucke (1832)
"... So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull; Heady, not strong; o'erflowing, though not full •." * Dunciad, III. 169. Pope names him also in his Prologue ..."

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