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1 Mawkish -- rank: 1000

Mawkish definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary MAWK'ISH, a. Apt to cause satiety or lothing. So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj ... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster ... maggot f. ON mathkr f. Gmc Webster's 1913 Dictionary Mawkish Mawk"ish, a. [Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.] 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. --Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally ... Newman. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly. A ...

2 Maudlin -- rank: 435

... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster ... a tearful and effusive stage of drunkenness. --n. weak or mawkish sentiment. Etymology: ME f. OF Madeleine f. eccl.L Magdalena ... inebrious, inept, infatuated, insane, intoxicated, jolly, kooky, lachrymose, loony, mad, mawkish, mellow, merry, moronic, muddled, mushy, namby-pamby, nappy, nostalgic, nostomanic ...

3 mawkishly -- rank: 435

... definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a mawkish and emotional manner; "the violinist played that piece mawkishly" [syn: mawkishly, drippily] Merriam Webster's adverb see mawkish Webster's 1913 Dictionary Mawkishly Mawk"ish*ly, adv. In a mawkish way.

4 mushy -- rank: 343

... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster ... of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, macerated, masticated, maudlin, mawkish, milk-and-water, milky, miry, misty, namby-pamby, neutral, nostalgic ...

5 soupy -- rank: 343

... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster ... soupier, soupiest) 1 of or resembling soup. 2 colloq. sentimental; mawkish. Derivatives: soupily adv. soupiness n. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Soupy ...

6 soppy -- rank: 343

... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster's adjective (soppier; -est) Date: 1631 1. sentimental, mawkish 2. a. soaked through ; saturated b. very wet • soppiness noun ...

7 Sickly -- rank: 343

... a sickly climate). 3 (of a book etc.) sentimental or mawkish. 4 inducing or connected with nausea (a sickly taste). 5 ... invalid, lackluster, languishing, leaden, livid, low, lurid, lusterless, mat, maudlin, mawkish, mealy, mean, moribund, morose, muddy, mushy, neutral, noisome, noxious, off ...

8 Sentimental -- rank: 343

... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster ... kooky, languishing, loony, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, mad, maternal, maudlin, mawkish, melting, moist, moonstruck, moronic, mushy, namby-pamby, nauseating, nostalgic, nostomanic ...

9 slushy -- rank: 343

... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster ... ice-encrusted, icelike, icky, icy, inclement, keen, maggoty, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish, mephitic, miry, mucky, muddy, mushy, nasty, nauseating, nipping, nippy, numbing ...

10 Saccharine -- rank: 343

... 3. ingratiatingly or affectedly agreeable or friendly 4. overly sentimental ; mawkish < a saccharine love story > • saccharinity noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj ... Moby Thesaurus candied, cloying, deferential, disarming, honeyed, insinuating, insinuative, luscious, mawkish, oversweet, rich, sickly-sweet, silken, silky, sugared, sugary, sweet, syrupy

11 schmaltzy -- rank: 343

... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster ... ADJ [disapproval] Moby Thesaurus bathetic, beery, cloying, gooey, gushing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, romantic, sappy, sentimental ...

12 drippy -- rank: 343

... sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy] Merriam Webster ... circa 1718 1. characterized by dripping; especially rainy, drizzly 2. mawkish 2 Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. (drippier, drippiest) 1 tending to ...

13 Mawkishness -- rank: 343

... sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness] Merriam Webster's noun see mawkish Webster's 1913 Dictionary Mawkishness Mawk"ish*ness, n. The quality or state of being mawkish. --J. H. Newman.

14 Rich -- rank: 217

... ludicrous, luscious, lush, lustrous, luxuriant, luxurious, made of money, many, mawkish, maximal, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, moneyed, moresque ...

15 Rank -- rank: 217

... maggoty, make an estimation, malodorous, mangy, maniple, mark, marshal, match, mawkish, mean, measly, measure, melodia, mephitic, methodize, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy ...