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| Main Entry: |
mawkish
 [maw-kish] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, emotional |
| Synonyms: | bathetic, cloying, feeble, gooey, gushing, gushy, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mushy, nauseating, romantic, sappy*, schmaltzy, sickening, sloppy, tear-jerking, teary |
| Antonyms: | calm, serious, unemotional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hokey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corny |
| Synonyms: | banal, commonplace, dull*, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, trite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maudlin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | teary, overemotional |
| Synonyms: | bathetic, befuddled, confused, cornball, drippy, gushing, insipid, lachrymose, mawkish, mushy, romantic, schmaltzy, sentimental, slush, soap, soapy, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking, tearful, weak, weepy |
| Antonyms: | calm, matter-of-fact, unimaginative |
Example Sentences
- There is nothing mawkish or mealy-mouthed about his successor.
- It is cheap, gaudy, mawkish and artificial-offensive to intelligence and taste.
- It is also about the arrogance, ambition, cold-heartedness and mawkish sentimentality of the humans who ostensibly cared for him.
| Main Entry: | mushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | romantic, corny |
| Synonyms: | bathetic, effusive, emotional, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, saccharine, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy*, slushy, soppy, sugary, syrupy, tear-jerking, weepy, wet |
| Antonyms: | unfeeling, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sickly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | revolting |
| Synonyms: | bilious, cloying, insalubrious, mawkish, morbid, morose, nauseating, noisome, noxious, sick, unwholesome |
| Antonyms: | gentle, nice |
| Main Entry: | stale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overused, out-of-date |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, banal, bent, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, common, commonplace, corny*, dead, drab, dull, dusty, effete, flat, fusty, hackneyed, insipid, like a dinosaur, mawkish, moth-eaten, out*, passé, past, platitudinous, repetitious, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn-out, yesterday's, zestless |
| Antonyms: | current, fresh, new, underused |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sugary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloyingly sweet |
| Synonyms: | cloying, honeyed, mawkish, sappy, sentimental, sugarcoated, unctuous |
| Main Entry: | sugary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweetened |
| Synonyms: | candied, flattering, glace, honeyed, mawkish, pleasant, sacchariferous, saccharine, sticky, sweet, syrupy |
| Main Entry: | bathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental |
| Synonyms: | drippy, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, slushy, sobby, soft, soppy |
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