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What (who) is MAWKISH - definition
mawkish
a.
Insipid, flat, vapid, tasteless, stale, sickly, nauseous, disgusting.
mawkish
You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly.
A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
= soppy
ADJ [disapproval]
Mawkish
·adj Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
II. Mawkish ·adj Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.
Examples of use of MAWKISH
1. How does he say farewell without seeming mawkish?
2. But today British attitude towards animals is reversed to an almost mawkish degree.
3. Admittedly, his mumbled remarks were in stark contrast to Blair‘s mawkish play–acting.
4. This is a red herring; there is no ethical value to this mawkish fetishisation of the foetus.
5. On some blogs, and certainly on many message boards, rational debate descended into the raving and the mawkish.