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

adj

Mawkish means excessively sentimental or so sappy it's sickening. Which is how you'd describe two lovebirds gushing over each other or your grandma’s cooing, cheek pinches, and sloppy-lipstick kisses.

The adjective mawkish came into vogue in the 1600s. Oddly enough, it's rooted in the Middle English word maggot and originally meant “sickly or nauseated.” But mawkish eventually evolved to mean something so overly sentimental it makes you sick. It's not a word you hear very often these days, but feel free to use it to describe really lame love poems and annoyingly mushy Valentine's Day cards.

WORD FAMILY

mawkish: mawkishly, mawkishness

USAGE EXAMPLES

Nothing mawkish here, and no politically correct revisionist tendencies afoot either.

Washington Times(Nov 10, 2016)

Twenty-two years earlier, he had saved his career by addressing a supposed scandal with his nationally broadcast “Checkers speech,” which was mawkish, abasing and effective.

Washington Post(Nov 01, 2016)

He said, without being mawkish: 'What if we had the cop choir singing on it?'

BBC(Oct 26, 2016)

adj effusively or insincerely emotional

Syn

bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy
emotional

of more than usual emotion

单词	mawkish
释义	mawkish (once / 11820 pages) adj Mawkish means excessively sentimental or so sappy it's sickening. Which is how you'd describe two lovebirds gushing over each other or your grandma’s cooing, cheek pinches, and sloppy-lipstick kisses. The adjective mawkish came into vogue in the 1600s. Oddly enough, it's rooted in the Middle English word maggot and originally meant “sickly or nauseated.” But mawkish eventually evolved to mean something so overly sentimental it makes you sick. It's not a word you hear very often these days, but feel free to use it to describe really lame love poems and annoyingly mushy Valentine's Day cards. WORD FAMILY mawkish: mawkishly, mawkishness USAGE EXAMPLES Nothing mawkish here, and no politically correct revisionist tendencies afoot either. Washington Times(Nov 10, 2016) Twenty-two years earlier, he had saved his career by addressing a supposed scandal with his nationally broadcast “Checkers speech,” which was mawkish, abasing and effective. Washington Post(Nov 01, 2016) He said, without being mawkish: 'What if we had the cop choir singing on it?' BBC(Oct 26, 2016) adj effusively or insincerely emotional Syn bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy emotional of more than usual emotion
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