mawkish

[mawk·ish]

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.

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Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

Adjective S.
effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"


a.
Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

a.
Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.


Mawkish

Mawk"ish, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.] 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.
So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull.
2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.

Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

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