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Another word for mawkish

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Adjective

  1. Affectedly or extravagantly emotional

    See also:

    feelings

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Another word for mawkish

Modifier
  1. See also:

    sentimental

    emotional

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Sentence Examples

  • The salt has a sweet, mawkish taste.

  • The flowers are large, white or pale rose, and followed in August by fruits of a brilliant red as large as a hens egg, and edible, though of mawkish flavor.

  • mawkish political speeches.

  • In that regard it's a good idea to stick to easy quaffing reds, rosés and whites that are not big on drama, excessively flabby or condescendingly mawkish.

  • It was sentimental, moving, yet not mawkish.

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