Mawkish: meaning, definitions and examples
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mawkish
[ หmษ:kษชส ]
emotional
characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin
Synonyms
emotional, maudlin, sappy, sentimental
Examples of usage
- He has a mawkish appreciation for romantic comedies.
- The mawkish movie made everyone in the theater cry.
- Her mawkish behavior was starting to annoy her friends.
- I find his mawkish speeches hard to listen to.
- The novel was criticized for its mawkish portrayal of love.
Translations
Translations of the word "mawkish" in other languages:
๐ต๐น sentimental
๐ฎ๐ณ เคญเคพเคตเฅเค
๐ฉ๐ช sentimental
๐ฎ๐ฉ melankolis
๐บ๐ฆ ัะตะฝัะธะผะตะฝัะฐะปัะฝะธะน
๐ต๐ฑ sentymentalny
๐ฏ๐ต ๆๅท็
๐ซ๐ท sentimental
๐ช๐ธ sentimental
๐น๐ท duygusal
๐ฐ๐ท ๊ฐ์์ ์ธ
๐ธ๐ฆ ุนุงุทูู
๐จ๐ฟ sentimentรกlnรญ
๐ธ๐ฐ sentimentรกlny
๐จ๐ณ ๅคๆๅๆ็
๐ธ๐ฎ sentimentalen
๐ฎ๐ธ tilfinningasamur
๐ฐ๐ฟ ัะตะทัะผัะฐะป
๐ฌ๐ช แกแแแขแแแแแขแแแฃแ แ
๐ฆ๐ฟ hissiy
๐ฒ๐ฝ sentimental
Word origin
The word 'mawkish' originated in the early 17th century from the obsolete term 'mawk', which meant 'maggot'. Over time, 'mawkish' evolved to describe something as overly sentimental or weakly emotional. The term has been used in literature and everyday language to criticize excessive displays of emotion or sentimentality.