mawkish
Adjective Satellite
- effusively or insincerely emotional
Adj
- Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- Feeling sick, queasy.
- Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Adjective
- offensively sentimental
Origin / Etymology
From mawk + -ish.
Synonyms
bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy, cutesy, sickly-sweet
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
mawkish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmawkish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mawkish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary