英语词汇“mawkish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mawkish

/ˈmɔːkɪʃ

adjective

1Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way: a mawkish ode to parenthood...

Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of ‘the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood’.
No pods being immediately in evidence, we suspect it was a more run-of-the-mill form of mawkish, voter-confidence-reducing sentimentality disguised as comradely goodwill.
Public displays of emotion were, he argued, a ‘symptom of a fragmented society that has exchanged reason for emotion, action for gesture, cool reserve for mawkish sentimentality’.

Synonyms

sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite;

British twee

informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling

British informal soppy

North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky

1.1 archaic or dialect Having a faint sickly flavour: the mawkish smell of warm beer

Derivatives

mawkishly

/ˈmɔːkɪʃ(ə)li

/ adverb ...

Don't think I don't realize how crazy this sounds, how mawkishly sentimental, how downright ‘unpatriotic’.
He steered the client out in the corridor, where the poor man, clearly confused and with no verbal skills, stood for a few minutes staring mawkishly around.
He croons the words mawkishly, holding the mike close to his mouth, keeping a straight face.

mawkishness

/ˈmɔːkɪʃnəs

/ noun ...

It is in sharing this history that they begin to conquer it, and it is by including the specific and ugly details of their painful marriages that the novel sidesteps sentimentality and mawkishness in its happy and cathartic conclusion.
He emerges as a tender and appreciative lover, without a trace of mawkishness or blackmail in his tone; happiness oozes from his letters, a holiday atmosphere of being truant from his professional life.
The composer can mistake cuteness for cleverness, and like any unabashed sentimentalist, he's often a stone's throw from mawkishness.

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'inclined to sickness'): from obsolete mawk 'maggot', from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.

单词	mawkish
释义	mawkish /ˈmɔːkɪʃ / adjective 1Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way: a mawkish ode to parenthood... Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of ‘the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood’. No pods being immediately in evidence, we suspect it was a more run-of-the-mill form of mawkish, voter-confidence-reducing sentimentality disguised as comradely goodwill. Public displays of emotion were, he argued, a ‘symptom of a fragmented society that has exchanged reason for emotion, action for gesture, cool reserve for mawkish sentimentality’. Synonyms sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite; British twee informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling British informal soppy North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky 1.1 archaic or dialect Having a faint sickly flavour: the mawkish smell of warm beer Derivatives mawkishly /ˈmɔːkɪʃ(ə)li / adverb ... Don't think I don't realize how crazy this sounds, how mawkishly sentimental, how downright ‘unpatriotic’. He steered the client out in the corridor, where the poor man, clearly confused and with no verbal skills, stood for a few minutes staring mawkishly around. He croons the words mawkishly, holding the mike close to his mouth, keeping a straight face. mawkishness /ˈmɔːkɪʃnəs / noun ... It is in sharing this history that they begin to conquer it, and it is by including the specific and ugly details of their painful marriages that the novel sidesteps sentimentality and mawkishness in its happy and cathartic conclusion. He emerges as a tender and appreciative lover, without a trace of mawkishness or blackmail in his tone; happiness oozes from his letters, a holiday atmosphere of being truant from his professional life. The composer can mistake cuteness for cleverness, and like any unabashed sentimentalist, he's often a stone's throw from mawkishness. Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'inclined to sickness'): from obsolete mawk 'maggot', from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin. Rhymes hawkish
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