Mawkish Synonyms and Antonyms

môkĭsh
Excessively and objectionably sentimental.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sentimental

Words Related to Mawkish

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Mawkish Sentence Examples

  • It was sentimental, moving, yet not mawkish.

  • But maybe the program's greatest achievement was avoiding mawkish sentimentality.

  • She is unsentimental, unpretentious, never mawkish, never the slightest bit swamped with self-pity, nor ever less than clear.

  • The salt has a sweet, mawkish taste.

  • Let's not get mawkish here, suffice to say that life has been kind to me in an absent-minded ' who's he?

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