mawkish
English
Alternative forms
- maukish (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/
- (cot–caught merger, NCVS, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːkɪʃ/
Adjective
mawkish (comparative more mawkish, superlative most mawkish)
- (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
- (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
- Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment; maudlin.
- 2014 August 11, w:Dave Itzkoff, "Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
- Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.
- 2014 August 11, w:Dave Itzkoff, "Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
Antonyms
- (excessively or falsely sentimental): rational
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