Crossword clues for mawkish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mawkish \Mawk"ish\, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.]
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Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.
So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull.
--Pope. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
--J. H. Newman.Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "sickly, nauseated," from Middle English mawke "maggot" (see maggot). Sense of "sickly sentimental" is first recorded 1702. Related: Mawkishly; mawkishness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic or dialectal English) Feeling sick, queasy. 2 (context archaic English) sickening or insipid in taste or smell. 3 Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
WordNet
Usage examples of "mawkish".
She had responded to the atmosphere of, if not mutual support, then mutual resistance, a unifying scorn for the preconceptions and mawkish sympathies of the outside world, and learnt to joke loudly and laugh falsely at a great many things that by most standards were not very funny.
Maybe, with your highly specialized interests, it seems mawkish, moony, and annoyingly unprofessional.
At Harrow, he formed a close, and, to my mind, a pretty mawkish friendship with young Elmore.
This mawkish reason for trying to marry Lucilla to his son merely because he and my brother were as thick as inkle-weavers fairly turns my stomach!
Sam my eldest brother, would never understand, would call me mawkish and lacking in true North American grit and determination.
England, where the mawkish sentiment of the music-halls, and the popular applause it receives, is enough to make a healthy man sick, and is only equalled by music-hall vulgarity.
Juvenile and mawkish, self-pitying and full of grand assumptions about my own significance and declarations of things that I would never do again were these treatises.
The proscribed of Beneventum had been on the whole an untutored lot, as content with a mawkish Neapolitan copy of some sentimental group of nymphs as with a Praxiteles or a Myron.
I sensed Marvell, the far side of me, pulling himself back from whatever mawkish swamp of rhyme he had meandered into and starting to take an interest.
In designing a funeral for himself that would surpass all the funerals of the past in its ludicrous self-indulgence and mawkish extravagance, he must also have had it in mind that there would soon come a time when funerals would lose their aura of inevitability, occurring only in the wake of rare and unexpected accidents.
Nothing turns me off quicker than the mawkish sight of a middle-aged woman besotted with a younger man.
Does that make me a patronizing Western imperialist who wants to deprive a child of its culture merely to satisfy my mawkish maternal needs?
I must say when I read it out to them I thought it sounded far too mawkish and indulgent, but George and Trevor were very supportive.
In designing a funeral for himself that would surpass all the funerals of the past in its ludicrous self-indulgence and mawkish extravagance, he must also have had it in mind that there would soon come a time when funerals would lose their aura of inevitability, occurring only in the wake of rare and unexpected accidents.
You'd hear of odd things if I lived alone with that mawkish, waxen face: the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black, every day or two: they detestably resemble Linton's.